Psalm 69 - Modern English Version

For the Music Director. To the melody of “Lilies.” A Psalm of David.

¹ Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

² I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood overflows me.

³ I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes grow dim while I wait for my God.

⁴ Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head; they are mighty who would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully; what I did not steal, I must now restore.

⁵ O God, You know my folly, and my sins are not hidden from You.

⁶ Let not those who wait on You, O Lord God of Hosts, be ashamed because of me; let not those who seek You be dishonored because of me, O God of Israel,

⁷ because for Your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother’s children;

⁹ for zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen upon me.

¹⁰ When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb to them.

¹² Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to You, O  Lord, at an acceptable time; O God, in the abundance of Your mercy, answer me in the truth of Your salvation.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵ Let not the flood overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit close its mouth on me.

¹⁶ Hear me, O  Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; turn to me according to the abundance of Your tender mercies.

¹⁷ Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in trouble; answer me quickly.

¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.

¹⁹ You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; my adversaries are all known to You.

²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

²¹ They also gave me poison in my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²² Let their table become a snare before them, and let their peace be a trap.

²³ Let their eyes be darkened so they do not see, and make their loins tremble continually.

²⁴ Pour out Your indignation upon them, and let Your wrathful anger overtake them.

²⁵ Let their camp be desolate, and let no one dwell in their tents.

²⁶ For they persecute him whom You have struck, and they recount the pain of those whom You have wounded.

²⁷ Add guilt to their iniquity, and let them not come into Your righteousness.

²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be recorded with the righteous.

²⁹ But I am afflicted and in pain; let Your salvation, O God, set me safely on high.

³⁰ I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

³¹ This will please the Lord more than an ox or bull with horns and hoofs.

³² The humble shall see this and be glad; and you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

³³ For the Lord hears the poor, and does not despise His prisoners.

³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

³⁵ For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.

³⁶ The descendants of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His name shall dwell in it.