drb - 68

drb@Psalms:68:1 @Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.

drb@Psalms:68:2 @SAVE me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.

drb@Psalms:68:3 @I stick fast in the mire of the deep: and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

drb@Psalms:68:4 @I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

drb@Psalms:68:5 @They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

drb@Psalms:68:6 @O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:

drb@Psalms:68:7 @Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.

drb@Psalms:68:8 @Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

drb@Psalms:68:9 @I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

drb@Psalms:68:10 @For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

drb@Psalms:68:11 @And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.

drb@Psalms:68:12 @And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.

drb@Psalms:68:13 @They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.

drb@Psalms:68:14 @But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

drb@Psalms:68:15 @Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

drb@Psalms:68:16 @Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

drb@Psalms:68:17 @Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

drb@Psalms:68:18 @And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.

drb@Psalms:68:19 @Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.

drb@Psalms:68:20 @Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.

drb@Psalms:68:21 @In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.

drb@Psalms:68:22 @And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

drb@Psalms:68:23 @Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

drb@Psalms:68:24 @Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.

drb@Psalms:68:25 @Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

drb@Psalms:68:26 @Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.

drb@Psalms:68:27 @Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

drb@Psalms:68:28 @Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.

drb@Psalms:68:29 @Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.

drb@Psalms:68:30 @But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.

drb@Psalms:68:31 @I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.

drb@Psalms:68:32 @And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.

drb@Psalms:68:33 @Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.

drb@Psalms:68:34 @For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.

drb@Psalms:68:35 @Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.

drb@Psalms:68:36 @For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.

drb@Psalms:68:37 @And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalms 68