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Psalms 69

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1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto <em>my</em> soul.
1 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.
2 I sink in deep mire where <em>there is</em> no standing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
2 I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.
3 I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
3 I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
4 Those that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those that would destroy me, <em>being</em> my enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored <em>that</em> which I did not take away.
4 Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my guiltiness is not hid from thee.
5 You, God, know my folly; my guilt is not hidden from you.
6 Do not let those that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of the hosts, be ashamed for my sake; do not let those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
6 Lord, the LORD Almighty, may those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me; God of Israel, may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me.
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
7 For I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother’s sons.
8 I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother’s children;
9 For the zeal of thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
9 for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
10 When I wept with fasting of my soul, thou hast been a reproach unto me.
10 When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;
11 I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a proverb to them.
11 when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.
12 They that sat in the gate spoke against me, and I <em>was</em> the song of the drunkards.
12 Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
13 But I <em>corrected</em> my prayer unto thee, O LORD, <em>in</em> the time of <em>thy</em> good pleasure; O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy saving health.
13 But I pray to you, LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not drown; let me be delivered from those that hate me and out of the deep waters.
14 Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.
15 Let not the violent force of the waters overcome me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
15 Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.
16 Hear me, O LORD, for thy mercy <em>is</em> perceptible, look upon me according to the multitude of thy acts of compassion
16 Answer me, LORD, out of the goodness of your love; in your great mercy turn to me.
17 And hide not thy face from thy slave, for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.
17 Do not hide your face from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.
18 Draw near unto my soul <em>and</em> redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.
18 Come near and rescue me; deliver me because of my foes.
19 Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour; my adversaries <em>are</em> all before thee.
19 You know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed; all my enemies are before you.
20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness, and I looked <em>for some</em> to take pity, but <em>there was</em> no one, and for comforters, but I found none.
20 Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.
21 They also gave me gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
21 They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.
22 Let their table become a snare before them, and <em>that which should have been</em> for <em>their</em> prosperity, <em>let it become</em> a stumbling block.
22 May the table set before them become a snare; may it become retribution and a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not and make their loins continually to shake.
23 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
24 Pour out your wrath on them; let your fierce anger overtake them.
25 Let their palace be desolate, <em>and</em> let no one dwell in their tents.
25 May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute <em>him</em> whom thou hast smitten, and they boast that thou hast slain their enemies.
26 For they persecute those you wound and talk about the pain of those you hurt.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.
27 Charge them with crime upon crime; do not let them share in your salvation.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous.
28 May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous.
29 But I <em>am</em> poor and sorrowful; let thy saving health, O God, set me up on high.
29 But as for me, afflicted and in pain— may your salvation, God, protect me.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with praises.
30 I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving.
31 <em>This</em> also shall please the LORD better <em>than the sacrifice of an ox or</em> bullock that <em>struggles</em> with horns and hoofs.
31 This will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hooves.
32 The humble shall see <em>this</em> <em>and</em> be glad; seek God and thy heart shall live.
32 The poor will see and be glad— you who seek God, may your hearts live!
33 For the LORD hears the destitute and does not despise his prisoners.
33 The LORD hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.
34 Let the heavens and the earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves in them.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and all that move in them,
35 For God will protect Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; they shall dwell there and inherit it.
35 for God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it;
36 The seed of his slaves shall inherit it, and those that love his name shall dwell therein.
36 the children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.
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