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geneva@Psalms:69:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)Of Shoshannim, read (Psa_45:1).(:note) Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David.» Save me, O God; for the David shows by the waters the great dangers he was in, out of which God delivered him. waters are come in unto [my] soul.

geneva@Psalms:69:2 @ I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no (note:)No stable firmness to settle my feet.(:note) standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

geneva@Psalms:69:3 @ I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine (note:)Though his senses failed him, yet his faith was constant and encouraged him still to pray.(:note) eyes fail while I wait for my God.

geneva@Psalms:69:4 @ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies (note:)Condemning me as guilty.(:note) wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I They judged me a thief, though innocent, and gave my goods to others, as though I had stolen them. took not away.

geneva@Psalms:69:5 @ O God, thou knowest my (note:)Though I am guilty toward you, yet I am innocent toward them.(:note) foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

geneva@Psalms:69:6 @ Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for (note:)Do not let my evil entreaty of the enemy be an opportunity for the faithful to fall from you.(:note) my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:69:7 @ For thy sake haue I suffred reproofe: shame hath couered my face.

geneva@Psalms:69:8 @ I am become a stranger vnto my brethren, euen an aliant vnto my mothers sonnes.

geneva@Psalms:69:9 @

geneva@Psalms:69:10 @ When I (note:)My zeal moved me to lament and pray for my salvation.(:note) wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

geneva@Psalms:69:11 @ I put on a sacke also: and I became a prouerbe vnto them.

geneva@Psalms:69:12 @ They that (note:)The more he sought to win them to God, the more they were against him both the poor and the rich.(:note) sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards.

geneva@Psalms:69:13 @ But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an (note:)Knowing that even though I endure trouble now, yet you have a time in which you have appointed my deliverance.(:note) acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

geneva@Psalms:69:14 @ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the (note:)He shows a living faith, in that he believes that God is favourable towards him when he seems to be angry and at hand when he seems to be far off.(:note) deep waters.

geneva@Psalms:69:15 @ Let not the water flood drowne mee, neither let the deepe swallowe me vp: and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me.

geneva@Psalms:69:16 @ Heare me, O Lord, for thy louing kindnes is good: turne vnto me according to ye multitude of thy tender mercies.

geneva@Psalms:69:17 @ And (note:)Not that he feared that God would not hear him, but that care made him think that God delayed too long.(:note) hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

geneva@Psalms:69:18 @ Draw neere vnto my soule and redeeme it: deliuer me because of mine enemies.

geneva@Psalms:69:19 @ Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine (note:)You see that I am beset as a sheep among many wolves.(:note) adversaries [are] all before thee.

geneva@Psalms:69:20 @ Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and (note:)He shows men that it is vain to put our trust in men in our great necessity, but that our comfort only depends on God: for man increases our sorrows, then diminishes them, (Joh_19:29).(:note) I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.

geneva@Psalms:69:21 @ For they gaue me gall in my meate, and in my thirst they gaue me vineger to drinke.

geneva@Psalms:69:22 @ Let their (note:)He desires God to execute his judgments against the reprobate, which cannot by any means be turned, (Rom_11:9).(:note) table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.

geneva@Psalms:69:23 @ Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their (note:)Take both judgment and power from them, (Act_1:20).(:note) loins continually to shake.

geneva@Psalms:69:24 @ Powre out thine anger vpon them, and let thy wrathfull displeasure take them.

geneva@Psalms:69:25 @ Let their (note:)Punish not only them, but their posterity, who will be like them.(:note) habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents.

geneva@Psalms:69:26 @ For they persecute him, whome thou hast smitten: and they adde vnto the sorrowe of them, whome thou hast wounded.

geneva@Psalms:69:27 @ Add (note:)By their continuance and increasing in their sins, let it be known that they are of the reprobate.(:note) iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:69:28 @ Let them be blotted out of the (note:)They who seemed by their profession to have been written in your book, yet by their fruits prove the contrary, let them be known as reprobates.(:note) book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

geneva@Psalms:69:29 @ When I am poore and in heauinesse, thine helpe, O God, shall exalt me.

geneva@Psalms:69:30 @ I will praise the Name of God with a song, and magnifie him with thankesgiuing.

geneva@Psalms:69:31 @ [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] (note:)There is no sacrifice which God values more than thanksgiving for his benefits.(:note) bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

geneva@Psalms:69:32 @ The humble shall see this, and they that seeke God, shalbe glad, and your heart shall liue.

geneva@Psalms:69:33 @ For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his (note:)For as he delivered his servant David, so will he do for all that are in distress and call on him.(:note) prisoners.

geneva@Psalms:69:34 @ Let heauen and earth praise him: the seas and all that moueth in them.

geneva@Psalms:69:35 @ For God will saue Zion, and builde the cities of Iudah, that men may dwell there and haue it in possession.

geneva@Psalms:69:36 @ The (note:)Under the temporal promise of the land of Canaan, he comprehends the promise of everlasting life to the faithful and their posterity.(:note) seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

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