­PSA 69:1  Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

 

­PSA 69:2  I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep

 waters, where the floods overflow me.

 

­PSA 69:3  I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I

 wait for my God.

 

­PSA 69:4  They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine

 head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty:

 then I restored that which I took not away.

 

­PSA 69:5  O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from

 thee.

 

­PSA 69:6  Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for

 my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of

 Israel.

 

­PSA 69:7  Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my

 face.

 

­PSA 69:8  I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my

 mother's children.

 

­PSA 69:9  For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches

 of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

 

­PSA 69:10  When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my

 reproach.

 

­PSA 69:11  I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

 

­PSA 69:12  They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song

 of the drunkards.

 

­PSA 69:13  But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable

 time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy

 salvation.

 

­PSA 69:14  Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered

 from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

 

­PSA 69:15  Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me

 up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

 

­PSA 69:16  Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me

 according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

 

­PSA 69:17  And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me

 speedily.

 

­PSA 69:18  Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine

 enemies.

 

­PSA 69:19  Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine

 adversaries are all before thee.

 

­PSA 69:20  Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I

 looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I

 found none.

 

­PSA 69:21  They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me

 vinegar to drink.

 

­PSA 69:22  Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should

 have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

 

­PSA 69:23  Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins

 continually to shake.

 

­PSA 69:24  Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger

 take hold of them.

 

­PSA 69:25  Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

 

­PSA 69:26  For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the

 grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

 

­PSA 69:27  Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy

 righteousness.

 

­PSA 69:28  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be

 written with the righteous.

 

­PSA 69:29  But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on

 high.

 

­PSA 69:30  I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with

 thanksgiving.

 

­PSA 69:31  This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that

 hath horns and hoofs.

 

­PSA 69:32  The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live

 that seek God.

 

­PSA 69:33  For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

 

­PSA 69:34  Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that

 moveth therein.

 

­PSA 69:35  For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that

 they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

 

­PSA 69:36  The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love

 his name shall dwell therein.