Psalms Chapter 69
69:1 | To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. ![]() ![]() |
69:2 | I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep ![]() |
69:3 | I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. |
69:4 | They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away. |
69:5 | O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. |
69:6 | Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of ![]() |
69:7 | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. |
69:8 | I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother' children. |
69:9 | For the zeal of thine ![]() |
69:10 | When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. |
69:11 | I made sackcloth also my ![]() |
69:12 | They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards. |
69:13 | But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an acceptable ![]() ![]() |
69:14 | Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep ![]() |
69:15 | Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. |
69:16 | Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness [is] good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. |
69:17 | And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. |
69:18 | Draw nigh unto my soul, [and] redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. |
69:19 | Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries [are] all before thee. |
69:20 | Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none. |
69:21 | They gave me also gall for my ![]() ![]() |
69:22 | Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. |
69:23 | Let their eyes be darkened, that they ![]() |
69:24 | Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. |
69:25 | Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents. |
69:26 | For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. |
69:27 | Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. |
69:28 | Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. |
69:29 | But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. |
69:30 | I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. |
69:31 | [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs. |
69:32 | The humble shall ![]() |
69:33 | For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. |
69:34 | Let the heaven and ![]() |
69:35 | For God will ![]() |
69:36 | The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein. |