Psalm 69

1Save me, God, for waters have come to my soul.

2I sink in miry depths where there is no standing; I have come into water's depths, and the torrent overflows me.

3I am faint from crying out; my throat is parched; my eyes waste away while I wait for my God.

4Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs on my head; my enemies, who seek to destroy me falsely, are mighty. Then I repay what I did not steal.

5God, you know my folly and my offenses; they are not concealed from you.

6Let not those who hope in you be ashamed because of me, Lord Yahweh of hosts; let not those who seek you be disgraced because of me, God of Israel.

7For your sake I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.

8I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother's sons.

9For zeal for your house has devoured me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen upon me.

10When I wept with the fast of my soul, it became reproaches to me.

11I made sackcloth my clothing and became a byword to them.

12Those who sit at the gate complain about me, and I am the song of the drinkers of strong drink.

13But as for me, my prayer to you, Yahweh, at the time of favor: God, in the abundance of your lovingkindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

14Rescue me from the mire and from sinking; deliver me from my haters and from the depths of waters.

15Do not let the floodwaters overwhelm me, nor let the deep swallow me, nor let the pit shut its mouth over me.

16Answer me, Yahweh, for your kindness is good; according to the multitude of your mercies, turn to me.

17Do not conceal your face from your servant, for distress afflicts me; answer me quickly.

18Come near to my soul and redeem it for the sake of my enemies; deliver me.

19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; all my adversaries stand before you.

20Shame has broken my heart, and anguish overwhelms me. I looked for someone to pity me, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

21They put gall in my food, and for my thirst they made me drink vinegar.

22Let their table before them become a snare, and their welfare a trap.

23Let their eyes darken so they cannot see, and let their loins shake continually.

24Pour your indignation upon them, and let the fury of your anger overtake them.

25Let their palace become desolate; let there be no dweller in their tents.

26For they persecute the one you struck, and they recount the grief of those you wounded.

27Add iniquity upon their iniquity, and let them not enter your righteousness.

28Let them be erased from the register of the living and not listed among the righteous.

29But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, God, exalt me.

30I will praise God's name with a song and magnify him with thanksgiving.

31It will please Yahweh better than an ox or a bull with horns and cloven hooves.

32The humble have seen it and rejoice; you who seek God, let your heart live.

33For Yahweh hears the needy and does not despise his prisoners.

34Let heavens and earth praise him, seas and everything that moves in them.

35For God will save Zion and build Judah's cities, and they will dwell there and possess it.

36His servants' offspring will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell in it.