Psalm 69 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ {\b For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. {\i A Psalm} of David.}\par\par\tab Save me, O God;\par\tab For the waters are come in unto my soul.

² I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing:\par\tab I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

³ I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried:\par\tab Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁴ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head:\par\tab They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty:\par\tab That which I took not away I have to restore.

⁵ O God, thou knowest my foolishness;\par\tab And my sins are not hid from thee.

⁶ Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts:\par\tab Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

⁷ Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;\par\tab Shame hath covered my face.

⁸ I am become a stranger unto my brethren,\par\tab And an alien unto my mother's children.

⁹ For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up;\par\tab And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

¹⁰ When I wept, {\i and chastened} my soul with fasting,\par\tab That was to my reproach.

¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing,\par\tab I became a byword unto them.

¹² They that sit in the gate talk of me;\par\tab And {\i I am} the song of the drunkards.

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time:\par\tab O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness,\par\tab Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink:\par\tab Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵ Let not the waterflood overwhelm me,\par\tab Neither let the deep swallow me up;\par\tab And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

¹⁶ Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good:\par\tab According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.

¹⁷ And hide not thy face from thy servant;\par\tab For I am in distress; answer me speedily.

¹⁸ Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:\par\tab Ransom me because of mine enemies.

¹⁹ Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor:\par\tab Mine adversaries are all before thee.

²⁰ Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness:\par\tab And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;\par\tab And for comforters, but I found none.

²¹ They gave me also gall for my food;\par\tab And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²² Let their table before them become a snare;\par\tab And when they are in peace, {\i let it become} a trap.

²³ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see;\par\tab And make their loins continually to shake.

²⁴ Pour out thine indignation upon them,\par\tab And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

²⁵ Let their habitation be desolate;\par\tab Let none dwell in their tents.

²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;\par\tab And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.

²⁷ Add iniquity unto their iniquity;\par\tab And let them not come into thy righteousness.

²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life,\par\tab And not be written with the righteous.

²⁹ But I am poor and sorrowful:\par\tab Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

³⁰ I will praise the name of God with a song,\par\tab And will magnify him with thanksgiving.

³¹ And it will please Jehovah better than an ox,\par\tab {\i Or} a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

³² The meek have seen it, and are glad:\par\tab Ye that seek after God, let your heart live.

³³ For Jehovah heareth the needy,\par\tab And despiseth not his prisoners.

³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise him,\par\tab The seas, and everything that moveth therein.

³⁵ For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah;\par\tab And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.

³⁶ The seed also of his servants shall inherit it;\par\tab And they that love his name shall dwell therein.\par