# Psalms 69 [[Psalms 68|←]] • [[Psalms 70|→]] --- To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, of David. ### 1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto soul. ### 2 I sink in deep mire, where no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. ### 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. ### 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored which I took not away. ### 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. ### 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. ### 7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. ### 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. ### 9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. ### 10 When I wept, my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. ### 11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. ### 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I the song of the drunkards. ### 13 But as for me, my prayer unto thee, O Lord, an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. ### 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. ### 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. ### 16 Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. ### 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. ### 18 Draw nigh unto my soul, redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. ### 19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries all before thee. ### 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked to take pity, but none; and for comforters, but I found none. ### 21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. ### 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and for welfare, a trap. ### 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. ### 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. ### 25 Let their habitation be desolate; let none dwell in their tents. ### 26 For they persecute whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. ### 27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. ### 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. ### 29 But I poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. ### 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. ### 31 also shall please the Lord better than an ox bullock that hath horns and hoofs. ### 32 The humble shall see be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. ### 33 For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. ### 34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. ### 35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. ### 36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.