Psalms:69
rsv@Psalms:69:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm of David.
rsv@Psalms:69:2 @ Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
rsv@Psalms:69:3 @ I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
rsv@Psalms:69:4 @ I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
rsv@Psalms:69:5 @ More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
rsv@Psalms:69:6 @ O God, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.
rsv@Psalms:69:7 @ Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
rsv@Psalms:69:8 @ For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.
rsv@Psalms:69:9 @ I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons.
rsv@Psalms:69:10 @ For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
rsv@Psalms:69:11 @ When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
rsv@Psalms:69:12 @ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
rsv@Psalms:69:13 @ I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
rsv@Psalms:69:14 @ But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of thy steadfast love answer me. With thy faithful help
rsv@Psalms:69:15 @ rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
rsv@Psalms:69:16 @ Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.
rsv@Psalms:69:17 @ Answer me, O LORD, for thy steadfast love is good; according to thy abundant mercy, turn to me.
rsv@Psalms:69:18 @ Hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress, make haste to answer me.
rsv@Psalms:69:19 @ Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies!
rsv@Psalms:69:20 @ Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to thee.
rsv@Psalms:69:21 @ Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
rsv@Psalms:69:22 @ They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
rsv@Psalms:69:23 @ Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
rsv@Psalms:69:24 @ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and make their loins tremble continually.
rsv@Psalms:69:25 @ Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy burning anger overtake them.
rsv@Psalms:69:26 @ May their camp be a desolation, let no one dwell in their tents.
rsv@Psalms:69:27 @ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and him whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.
rsv@Psalms:69:28 @ Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from thee.
rsv@Psalms:69:29 @ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
rsv@Psalms:69:30 @ But I am afflicted and in pain; let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!
rsv@Psalms:69:31 @ I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
rsv@Psalms:69:32 @ This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
rsv@Psalms:69:33 @ Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
rsv@Psalms:69:34 @ For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
rsv@Psalms:69:35 @ Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.
rsv@Psalms:69:36 @ For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it; [ (Psalms strkjv@69:37) the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it. ]
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