69:1 Save me, O God, because the waters have come in to my soul. 69:2 I sink in deep mud where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
69:3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
69:4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I did not take away.
69:5 O God, you know my folly and my sins are not hid from you. 69:6 Do not let those who wait for you, be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts. Do not let those who seek you, be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
69:7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach, shame has covered my face. 69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers and an alien to my mother's sons.
69:9 Because the zeal of your house has eaten me up and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen upon me.
69:10 When I wept in my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a parable to them. 69:12 Those who sit at the gate talk of me and I am the song of the drunkards.
69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Jehovah. Answer me in the truth of your salvation in an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your loving kindness.
69:14 Deliver me out of the mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and out of the deep waters. 69:15 Do not let the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep swallow me up. And do not let the pit shut its mouth upon me.
69:16 Answer me, O Jehovah, because your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies turn to me, 69:17 and do not hide your face from your servant, because I am in distress. Answer me speedily. 69:18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
69:19 You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. 69:20Reproach has 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 also gave me gall for my food and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22 Let their table be a trap before them, and to those at peace, let it be a snare.
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see and loins be wavering continually.
69:24 Pour out your indignation upon them and let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. 69:25 Let their dwelling be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents.
69:26 Because they persecute he whom you have struck and they tell of the sorrow of those whom you have wounded. 69:27 Add iniquity to their iniquity and do not let them come into your righteousness.
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life and not be written with the righteous.
69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful. Let your salvation, O God, set me up on high. 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will extol him with thanksgiving, 69:31 and it will please Jehovah better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
69:32 The meek have seen it and are glad. You* who seek after God, let your* heart live. 69:33 Because Jehovah hears the needy and does not despise his prisoners.
69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in it. 69:35 Because God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah. And they will abide there and have it in possession. 69:36 The seed also of his servants will inherit it and those who love his name will dwell in it.