Psalms 69 (kjv)

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.²I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.³I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.⁴They 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.⁵O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.⁶Let 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.⁷Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.⁸I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.⁹For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.¹⁰When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.¹¹I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.¹²They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards .

¹³But 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.¹⁴Deliver 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.¹⁵Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.¹⁶Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.¹⁷And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.¹⁸Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.¹⁹Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.²⁰Reproach 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.²¹They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.²³Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.²⁴Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.²⁵Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.²⁷Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.³¹This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.³²The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.³³For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.³⁴Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.³⁵For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.³⁶The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.