Psalms 69
69
PSALM 69
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim,
A Psalm of David.
1Save me, O God, because the floods
do so environ me,
That ev'n unto my very soul
come in the waters be.
2I downward in deep mire do sink,
where standing there is none:
I am into deep waters come,
where floods have o'er me gone.
3I weary with my crying am,
my throat is also dry'd;
Mine eyes do fail, while for my God
I waiting do abide.
4Those men that do without a cause
bear hatred unto me,
Than are the hairs upon my head
in number more they be:
They that would me destroy, and are
mine en'mies wrongfully,
Are mighty: so what I took not,
to render forc'd was I.
5Lord, thou my folly know'st, my sins
not cover'd are from thee.
6Let none that wait on thee be sham'd,
Lord God of hosts, for me.
O Lord, the God of Israel,
let none, who search do make,
And seek thee, be at any time
confounded for my sake.
7For I have borne reproach for thee,
my face is hid with shame.
8To brethren strange, to mother's sons
an alien I became.
9Because the zeal did eat me up,
which to thine house I bear;
And the reproaches cast at thee,
upon me fallen are.
10My tears and fasts, t' afflict my soul,
were turned to my shame.
11When sackcloth I did wear, to them
a proverb I became.
12The men that in the gate do sit
against me evil spake;
They also that vile drunkards were
of me their song did make.
13But, in an acceptable time,
my pray'r, Lord, is to thee:
In truth of thy salvation, Lord,
and mercy great, hear me.
14Deliver me out of the mire,
from sinking do me keep;
Free me from those that do me hate,
and from the waters deep.
15Let not the flood on me prevail,
whose water overflows;
Nor deep me swallow, nor the pit
her mouth upon me close.
16Hear me, O Lord, because thy love
and kindness is most good;
Turn unto me, according to
thy mercies' multitude.
17Nor from thy servant hide thy face:
I'm troubled, soon attend.
18Draw near my soul, and it redeem;
me from my foes defend.
19To thee is my reproach well known,
my shame, and my disgrace:
Those that mine adversaries be
are all before thy face.
20Reproach hath broke my heart; I'm full
of grief: I look'd for one
To pity me, but none I found;
comforters found I none.
21They also bitter gall did give
unto me for my meat:
They gave me vinegar to drink,
when as my thirst was great.
22Before them let their table prove
a snare; and do thou make
Their welfare and prosperity
a trap themselves to take.
23Let thou their eyes so darken'd be,
that sight may them forsake;
And let their loins be made by thee
continually to shake.
24Thy fury pour thou out on them,
and indignation;
And let thy wrathful anger, Lord,
fast hold take them upon.
25All waste and desolate let be
their habitation;
And in their tabernacles all
inhabitants be none.
26Because him they do persecute,
whom thou didst smite before;
They talk unto the grief of those
whom thou hast wounded sore.
27Add thou iniquity unto
their former wickedness;
And do not let them come at all
into thy righteousness.
28Out of the book of life let them
be raz'd and blotted quite;
Among the just and righteous
let not their names be writ.
29But now become exceeding poor
and sorrowful am I:
By thy salvation, O my God,
let me be set on high.
30The name of God I with a song
most cheerfully will praise;
And I, in giving thanks to him,
his name shall highly raise.
31This to the Lord a sacrifice
more gracious shall prove
Than bullock, ox, or any beast
that hath both horn and hoof.
32When this the humble men shall see,
it joy to them shall give:
O all ye that do seek the Lord,
your hearts shall ever live.
33For God the poor hears, and will not
his prisoners contemn.
34Let heav'n, and earth, and seas, him praise,
and all that move in them.
35For God will Judah's cities build,
and he will Sion save,
That they may dwell therein,
and it in sure possession have.
36And they that are his servants' seed
inherit shall the same;
So shall they have their dwelling there
that love his blessed name.
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Psalms 69
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PSALM 69
1 To victory, on the roses of David. God, make thou me safe; for waters have entered unto my soul.
2I am set in the slime of the depth; and there is no substance. I came into the depth of the sea; and the tempest drenched or drowned me [down].
3I travailed crying, my cheeks were made hoarse; mine eyes failed, the while I hope/d into my God.
4They that hated me without cause; were multiplied above the hairs of mine head. Mine enemies that pursued me unjustly were comforted; I paid then for those things, which I ravished not.
5God, thou knowest mine unknow-ing; and my trespasses be not hid from thee.
6Lord, Lord of virtues; they, that abide thee, be not ashamed in me. God of Israel; they, that seek thee, be not shamed on me.
7For I suffered shame for thee; shame covered my face.
8I am made a stranger to my brethren; and a pilgrim to the sons of my mother.
9For the fervent love of thine house ate me; and the shames of men saying shames to thee fell on me.
10And I covered my soul with fasting; and it was made into shame to me.
11And I putted [or put] for my cloth an hair-shirt; and I am made to them into a parable.
12They, that sat in the gate, spake against me; and they, that drank wine, sang of me.
13But Lord, I dress my prayer to thee; God, I abide the time of good pleasance. Hear thou me in the multitude of thy mercy; in the truth of thine health.
14Deliver thou me from the clay, that I be not fast set-in; deliver thou me from them that hate me, and from [the] depths or deepness of waters.
15The tempest of water drench not me [down], neither the depth swallow me; neither the pit make strait his mouth on me.
16Lord, hear thou me, for thy mercy is benign; after the multitude of thy merciful doings behold thou into me.
17And turn not away thy face from thy servant; for I am in tribulation, hear thou me swiftly.
18Give thou attention to my soul, and deliver thou it; for mine enemies, deliver thou me.
19Thou knowest my reproof, and my despising; and my shame. All that trouble me be in thy sight;
20mine heart abode in shame, and wretchedness. And I abode him, that was sorry together with me, and none was; and that should comfort me, and I found not.
21And they gave gall into my meat; and in my thirst they gave to me drink with vinegar.
22The board of them be made before them into a snare; and into yieldings, and into cause of stumbling.
23Their eyes be made dark, that they see not; and ever[more] bow down the back of them.
24Shed [or Pour] out thine ire [or wrath] on them; and the strong vengeance of thine ire take them.
25The habitation of them be made forsaken; and be there none that dwell in the tabernacles of them.
26For they pursued him, whom thou hast smitten; and they added on the sorrow of my wounds.
27Add thou wickedness on the wickedness of them; and enter they not into thy rightwiseness.
28Be they done away from the book of living men; and be they not written with just [or rightwise] men.
29I am poor and sorrowful; God, thine health [or salvation] took me up.
30I shall praise the name of God with song; and I shall magnify him with praising.
31And it shall please God more than a new calf bringing forth horns and claws.
32Poor men see, and be glad; seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
33For the Lord heard poor men; and despised not his bound men.
34Heavens and earth, praise him; the sea, and all creeping beasts in those, praise him.
35For God shall make safe Zion; and the cities of Judah shall be builded. And they shall dwell there; and they shall get it by heritage.
36And the seed of his servants shall have it in possession; and they that love his name, shall dwell therein.
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