Book 19 Psalms Chapter 069
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| 069:001 | Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.   |
| 069:002 | I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.   |
| 069:003 | I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.   |
| 069:004 | 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.   |
| 069:005 | O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.   |
| 069:006 | 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 Israel.   |
| 069:007 | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.   |
| 069:008 | I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.   |
| 069:009 | For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.   |
| 069:010 | When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.   |
| 069:011 | I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.   |
| 069:012 | They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.   |
| 069:013 | But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.   |
| 069:014 | 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 waters.   |
| 069:015 | Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.   |
| 069:016 | Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.   |
| 069:017 | And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.   |
| 069:018 | Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.   |
| 069:019 | Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.   |
| 069:020 | 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.   |
| 069:021 | They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.   |
| 069:022 | Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.   |
| 069:023 | Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.   |
| 069:024 | Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.   |
| 069:025 | Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.   |
| 069:026 | For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.   |
| 069:027 | Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.   |
| 069:028 | Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.   |
| 069:029 | But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.   |
| 069:030 | I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.   |
| 069:031 | This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.   |
| 069:032 | The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.   |
| 069:033 | For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.   |
| 069:034 | Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.   |
| 069:035 | For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.   |
| 069:036 | The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein. |