Psalms 69
69
A Cry of Distress # 69 Psalm 69 is considered one of the most outstanding messianic psalms, with obvious prophetic references to the sufferings and cross of Jesus Christ.
To the Pure and Shining One
David’s poetic song of praise To the tune of “Lilies”
1-2God, my God, come and save me!
These floods of trouble have risen higher and higher.
The water is up to my neck! # 69:1–2 Or “throat.”
I’m sinking into the mud with no place to stand,
and I’m about to drown in this storm.
3I’m weary, exhausted with weeping.
My throat is dry, my voice is gone, my eyes are swollen with sorrow,
and I’m waiting for you, God, to come through for me.
4I can’t even count all those who hate me for no reason.
Many influential men want me silenced,
yet I’ve done nothing against them.
Must I restore what I never took away?
5God, my life is an open book to you.
You know every sin I’ve ever done.
For nothing within me is hidden from your sight!
6Lord Yahweh of Angel Armies,
keep me from ever being a stumbling block to others,
to those who love you.
Lord God of Israel, don’t let what happens to me
be the source of confusion to those who are passionate for you.
7Because of my love for you, Lord,
I have been mocked, cursed, and disgraced.
8Even my own brothers, those of my family,
act as though they don’t want anything to do with me.
9My love for you has my heart on fire!
My passion for your house consumes me!
Nothing will turn me away,
even though I endure all the insults of those who insult you.
10When they see me seeking for more of you with weeping # 69:10 Or “When I pour out my soul” or “When I weep soul-tears.” and fasting,
they all just scoff and scorn at my passion.
11When I humble myself with sorrow over my sin,
it gives them a reason to mock me even more.
12The leaders, the influential ones—how they scorn my passion for you!
I’ve become the talk of the town, the theme of drunkards’ songs.
13But I keep calling out to you, Yahweh!
I know you will bend down to listen to me,
for now is the season of favor.
Because of your faithful love for me,
your answer to my prayer will be my sure salvation.
14Pull me out of this mess! Don’t let me sink!
Rescue me from those who hate me and from all this trouble I’m in!
15Don’t let this flood drown me.
Save me from these deep waters
or I’ll go down to the pit of destruction.
16-17Oh, Lord God, answer my prayers!
I need to see your tender kindness, your grace,
your compassion, and your constant love.
Just let me see your face, and turn your heart toward me.
Come running quickly to your servant.
In this deep distress, come and answer my prayer.
18Come closer as a friend and redeem me.
Set me free so my enemies cannot say that you are powerless.
19See how they dishonor me in shame and disgrace?
You know, Lord, what I’m going through, and you see it all.
20I’m heartsick and heartbroken by it all.
Their contempt has crushed my soul.
I looked for sympathy and compassion
but found only empty stares.
21I was hungry and they gave me bitter food.
I was thirsty and they offered me vinegar. # 69:21 This was fulfilled with Jesus being offered vinegar on the cross. See Luke 23:36.
22Let their “feasts” turn to ashes.
Let their “peace and security” become their downfall.
23Make them blind as bats, groping in the dark.
Let them be feeble, trembling continually.
24-25Pour out your fury on them all!
Consume them with the fire of your anger!
Burn down the walled palace where they live!
Leave them homeless and desolate!
26For they come against the one you yourself have struck,
and they scorn the pain of those you’ve pierced.
27Pile on them the guilt of their sins.
Don’t let them ever go free.
28Leave them out of your list of the living!
Blot them out of your Book of Life!
Never name them as your own!
29I am burdened and broken by this pain.
When your miracle rescue comes to me,
it will lift me to the highest place.
30Then my song will be a burst of praise to you.
My glory-shouts will make your fame even more glorious
to all who hear my praises!
31For I know, Yahweh, that my praises mean more to you
than all my gifts and sacrifices.
32All who seek you will see God do this for them,
and they’ll overflow with gladness.
Let this revive your hearts, all you lovers of God!
33For Yahweh does listen to the poor and needy
and will not abandon his prisoners of love. # 69:33 Or “those wearing shackles.”
34Let all the universe praise him!
The high heavens and everyone on earth, praise him!
Let the oceans deep, with everything in them, keep it up!
35God will come to save his Zion-people.
God will build up his cities of Judah,
for there his people will live in peace.
36All their children will inherit the land,
and the lovers of his name will live there safe and secure.
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69
A Plea for Deliverance from Persecution
For the music director, according to The Lilies. Of David.#The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
1Save me, O God,
because waters have come up to my neck.#Hebrew “soul” or “life”
2I sink in the mud of the deep, and there is no foothold.
I have come to watery depths,
and the torrent floods over me.
3I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched.
My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God.
4More numerous than the hairs of my head
are those hating me without a cause.
Those who are destroying me—my enemies wrongfully#Or, “those who oppose me with falsehood”— are mighty.
What I did not steal, I then must restore.
5O God, you yourself know#Literally “you, you know” my foolishness,
and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.
6Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me,
O Lord Yahweh of hosts.
Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me,
O God of Israel.
7Because on account of you I have borne reproach;
disgrace has covered my face.
8I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
9because the zeal for your house#Or “temple” has consumed me,
and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.
10When I wept in the fasting of my soul,
it became reproaches for me.
11When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became for them a byword.
12Those sitting at the gate talk about me
as also#Hebrew “and” the songs of the drunkards.
13But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time,
O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love.
Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.
14Deliver me from the mud and do not let me sink.
Let me be delivered from those who hate me
and from the watery depths.
15Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me,
or the deep swallow me,
or the pit close its mouth over me.
16Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love is good;
according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,
17and do not hide your face from your servant.
Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.
18Draw near to my soul; redeem it.
Because of my enemies, ransom me.
19You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace.
Fully known#Literally “right in front of” to you are all my adversaries.
20Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick.
And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none,
and for comforters, but I found none.
21They also gave me gall for food,#Or “they put poison in my food”
and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let their table before them be a trap,
and their times of peace a snare.
23Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see,
and make their loins continually tremble.
24Pour out your indignation on them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
25Let their camp be desolate.
Let none dwell in their tents,
26because they persecute those whom you, yourself, have struck,
and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded.
27Add guilt on top of their guilt,#Literally “Give guilt on their guilt”
and do not let them be acquitted.#Literally “come into your righteousness”
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
and let them not be recorded with the righteous.
29But as for me, though I am afflicted and pained,
your salvation will protect#The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress me, O God.
30I will praise the name of God in song,
and magnify him with thanksgiving.
31For Yahweh it will be better than an ox or bull,
horned and hoofed.#That is, mature and ritually clean
32The afflicted will see and rejoice.
O God seekers, let your heart revive,#Or “live”
33because Yahweh hears the needy
and does not despise his own who are prisoners.
34Let heavens and earth praise him,
the seas and all that moves in them,
35because God will save Zion
and build the cities of Judah,
that they may dwell there and possess it.
36And the offspring of his servants will inherit it,
and those who love his name will abide in it.
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