Psalms, 69

1. For the leader; according to "Lilies." Of David.

1. [For the choirmaster Tune: 'Lilies . . .' Of David] Save me, God, for the waters have closed in on my very being.

2. Save me, God, for the waters have reached my neck.

2. I am sinking in the deepest swamp and there is no firm ground. I have stepped into deep water and the waves are washing over me.

3. I have sunk into the mire of the deep, where there is no foothold. I have gone down to the watery depths; the flood overwhelms me.

3. I am exhausted with calling out, my throat is hoarse, my eyes are worn out with searching for my God.

4. I am weary with crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes have failed, looking for my God.

4. More numerous than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without reason. Those who seek to get rid of me are powerful, my treacherous enemies. (Must I give back what I have never stolen?)

5. More numerous than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause. Too many for my strength are my treacherous enemies. Must I now restore what I did not steal?

5. God, you know how foolish I am, my offences are not hidden from you.

6. God, you know my folly; my faults are not hidden from you.

6. Those who hope in you must not be made fools of, Yahweh Sabaoth, because of me! Those who seek you must not be disgraced, God of Israel, because of me!

7. Let those who wait for you, LORD of hosts, not be shamed through me. Let those who seek you, God of Israel, not be disgraced through me

7. It is for you I bear insults, my face is covered with shame,

8. For your sake I bear insult, shame covers my face.

8. I am estranged from my brothers, alienated from my own mother's sons;

9. I have become an outcast to my kin, a stranger to my mother's children.

9. for I am eaten up with zeal for your house, and insults directed against you fall on me.

10. Because zeal for your house consumes me, I am scorned by those who scorn you.

10. I mortify myself with fasting, and find myself insulted for it,

11. I have wept and fasted, but this led only to scorn.

11. I dress myself in sackcloth and become their laughing-stock,

12. I clothed myself in sackcloth; I became a byword for them.

12. the gossip of people sitting at the gate, and the theme of drunkards' songs.

13. They who sit at the gate gossip about me; drunkards make me the butt of their songs.

13. And so, I pray to you, Yahweh, at the time of your favour; in your faithful love answer me, in the constancy of your saving power.

14. But I pray to you, LORD, for the time of your favor. God, in your great kindness answer me with your constant help.

14. Rescue me from the mire before I sink in; so I shall be saved from those who hate me, from the watery depths.

15. Rescue me from the mire; do not let me sink. Rescue me from my enemies and from the watery depths.

15. Let not the waves wash over me, nor the deep swallow me up, nor the pit close its mouth on me.

16. Do not let the floodwaters overwhelm me, nor the deep swallow me, nor the mouth of the pit close over me.

16. Answer me, Yahweh, for your faithful love is generous; in your tenderness turn towards me;

17. Answer me, LORD, in your generous love; in your great mercy turn to me.

17. do not turn away from your servant, be quick to answer me, for I am in trouble.

18. Do not hide your face from your servant; in my distress hasten to answer me.

18. Come to my side, redeem me, ransom me because of my enemies.

19. Come and ransom my life; because of my enemies redeem me.

19. You know well the insults, the shame and disgrace I endure. Every one of my oppressors is known to you.

20. You know my reproach, my shame, my disgrace; before you stand all my foes.

20. Insult has broken my heart past cure. I hoped for sympathy, but in vain, for consolers -- not one to be found.

21. Insult has broken my heart, and I am weak; I looked for compassion, but there was none, for comforters, but found none.

21. To eat they gave me poison, to drink, vinegar when I was thirsty.

22. Instead they put gall in my food; for my thirst they gave me vinegar.

22. May their own table prove a trap for them, and their abundance a snare;

23. Make their own table a snare for them, a trap for their friends.

23. may their eyes grow so dim that they cannot see, all their muscles lose their strength.

24. Make their eyes so dim they cannot see; keep their backs ever feeble.

24. Vent your fury on them, let your burning anger overtake them.

25. Pour out your wrath upon them; let the fury of your anger overtake them.

25. Reduce their encampment to ruin, and leave their tents untenanted,

26. Make their camp desolate, with none to dwell in their tents.

26. for hounding someone you had already stricken, for redoubling the pain of one you had wounded.

27. For they pursued the one you struck, added to the pain of the one you wounded.

27. Charge them with crime after crime, exclude them from your saving justice,

28. Add that to their crimes; let them not attain to your reward.

28. erase them from the book of life, do not enrol them among the upright.

29. Strike them from the book of the living; do not count them among the just!

29. For myself, wounded wretch that I am, by your saving power raise me up!

30. But I am afflicted and in pain; let your saving help protect me, God,

30. I will praise God's name in song, I will extol him by thanksgiving,

31. That I may praise God's name in song and glorify it with thanksgiving.

31. for this will please Yahweh more than an ox, than a bullock horned and hoofed.

32. My song will please the LORD more than oxen, more than bullocks with horns and hooves:

32. The humble have seen and are glad. Let your courage revive, you who seek God.

33. "See, you lowly ones, and be glad; you who seek God, take heart!

33. For God listens to the poor, he has never scorned his captive people.

34. For the LORD hears the poor, does not spurn those in bondage.

34. Let heaven and earth and seas, and all that stirs in them, acclaim him!

35. Let the heavens and the earth sing praise, the seas and whatever moves in them!"

35. For God will save Zion, and rebuild the cities of Judah, and people will live there on their own land;

36. God will rescue Zion, rebuild the cities of Judah. God's servants shall dwell in the land and possess it;

36. the descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.

37. 7) it shall be the heritage of their descendants; those who love God's name shall dwell there.

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