Psalms 69

1 For the chief musician; set to Shoshannim. A psalm of David. Save me, God; for the waters have put my life in danger.⋮

2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no place to stand; I have come into deep waters, where the floods flow over me.⋮

3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.⋮

4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs on my head; those who would cut me off, being my enemies for wrong reasons, are mighty; what I did not steal, I have to give back.⋮

5 God, you know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from you.⋮

6 Let not those who hope in you be put to shame because of me, Lord Yahweh of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor because of me, God of Israel.⋮

7 For your sake I have borne rebuke; shame has covered my face.⋮

8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.⋮

9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up, and the rebukes of those who rebuke you have fallen on me.⋮

10 When I wept and did not eat food, they insulted me.⋮

11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became the object of a proverb to them.⋮

12 Those who sit in the city gate talk about me; I am a song of drunkards.⋮

13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, at a time that you will accept; answer me in the trustworthiness of your salvation.⋮

14 Pull me out of the mire, and do not let me sink; let me be taken away from those who hate me and rescued out of the deep waters.⋮

15 Do not let the floods of water overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Do not let the pit shut its mouth on me.⋮

16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your covenant faithfulness is good; because your mercies for me are many, turn to me.⋮

17 Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress; answer me quickly.⋮

18 Come to me and redeem me. Because of my enemies, ransom me.⋮

19 You know my rebuke, my shame, and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before you.⋮

20 Rebuke has broken my heart; I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; I looked for comforters, but I found none.⋮

21 They gave me poison for my food; in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.⋮

22 Let their table before them become a snare; when they think they are in safety, let it become a trap.⋮

23 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see; and always make their loins shake.⋮

24 Pour out your indignation on them, and let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.⋮

25 Let their place be a desolation; let no one live in their tents.⋮

26 For they persecuted the one you struck down. They repeated the account of the pain of those you have wounded.⋮

27 Accuse them of having committed iniquity after iniquity; do not let them come into your righteous victory.⋮

28 Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life and not be written down along with the righteous.⋮

29 But I am poor and sorrowful; let your salvation, God, set me up on high.⋮

30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will exalt him with thanksgiving.⋮

31 That will please Yahweh better than an ox or a bull that has horns and hooves.⋮

32 The meek have seen it and are glad; you who seek after God, let your hearts live.⋮

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

34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.⋮

35 For God will save Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; the people will live there and have it as a possession.⋮

36 His servants' descendants will inherit it; and those who love his name will live there.⋮