| 1 | Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck [they threaten my life]. |
| 2 | I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overwhelm me. |
| 3 | I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail with waiting [hopefully] for my God. |
| 4 | Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would cut me off
and
destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are many
and
mighty. I am [forced] to restore what I did not steal. |
| 5 | O God, You know my folly
and
blundering; my sins
and
my guilt are not hidden from You. |
| 6 | Let not those who wait
and
hope
and
look for You, O Lord of hosts, be put to shame through me; let not those who seek
and
inquire for
and
require You [as their vital necessity] be brought to confusion
and
dishonor through me, O God of Israel. |
| 7 | Because for Your sake I have borne taunt
and
reproach; confusion
and
shame have covered my face. |
| 8 | I have become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother’s children. |
| 9 | For zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches
and
insults of those who reproach
and
insult You have fallen upon me. |
| 10 | When I wept
and
humbled myself with fasting, I was jeered at
and
humiliated; |
| 11 | When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword (an object of scorn) to them. |
| 12 | They who sit in [the city’s] gate talk about me, and I am the song of the drunkards. |
| 13 | But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord. At an acceptable
and
opportune time, O God, in the multitude of Your mercy
and
the abundance of Your loving-kindness hear me,
and
in the truth
and
faithfulness of Your salvation answer me. |
| 14 | Rescue me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me and from out of the deep waters. |
| 15 | Let not the floodwaters overflow
and
overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up nor the [dug] pit [with water perhaps in the bottom] close its mouth over me. |
| 16 | Hear
and
answer me, O Lord, for Your loving-kindness is sweet
and
comforting; according to Your plenteous tender mercy
and
steadfast love turn to me. |
| 17 | Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress; O answer me speedily! |
| 18 | Draw close to me and redeem me; ransom
and
set me free because of my enemies [lest they glory in my prolonged distress]! |
| 19 | You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before You [fully known to You]. |
| 20 | Insults
and
reproach have broken my heart; I am full of heaviness
and
I am distressingly sick. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. |
| 21 | They gave me also gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar (a soured wine) to drink. |
| 22 | Let their own table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare to them; and when they are secure in peace [or at their sacrificial feasts, let it become] a trap to them. |
| 23 | Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually [from terror, dismay, and feebleness]. |
| 24 | Pour out Your indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of Your burning anger catch up with them. |
| 25 | Let their habitation
and
their encampment be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents. |
| 26 | For they pursue
and
persecute him whom You have smitten, and they gossip about those whom You have wounded, [adding] to their grief
and
pain. |
| 27 | Let one [unforgiven] perverseness
and
iniquity accumulate upon another for them [in Your book], and let them not come into Your righteousness
or
be justified and acquitted by You. |
| 28 | Let them be blotted out of the book of the living
and
the book of life and not be enrolled among the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright and in right standing with God). |
| 29 | But I am poor, sorrowful, and in pain; let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high. |
| 30 | I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify Him with thanksgiving, |
| 31 | And it will please the Lord better than an ox or a bullock that has horns and hoofs. |
| 32 | The humble shall see it and be glad; you who seek God, inquiring for
and
requiring Him [as your first need], let your hearts revive
and
live! |
| 33 | For the Lord hears the poor
and
needy and despises not His prisoners (His miserable and wounded ones). |
| 34 | Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them. |
| 35 | For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and [His servants] shall remain
and
dwell there and have it in their possession; |
| 36 | The children of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His name shall dwell in it. |
Cross references:
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Psalm 69:4 : John 15:25.
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Psalm 69:8 : John 7:3-5.
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Psalm 69:9 : John 2:17; Rom. 15:3.
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Psalm 69:21 : Matt. 27:34, 48.
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Psalm 69:25 : Matt. 23:38; Acts 1:20.
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Psalm 69:28 : Rev. 3:4, 5; 20:12, 15; 21:27.
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Psalm 69:32 : Ps. 22:26; 42:1.
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