english Bible Presentation Sharing - Psalms Book, chapter 69, verse 56 in Esv Version

Psalms 69 : 1 (ESV)

TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO LILIES. OF DAVID. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

Psalms 69 : 2 (ESV)

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

Psalms 69 : 3 (ESV)

I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Psalms 69 : 4 (ESV)

More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?

Psalms 69 : 5 (ESV)

O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

Psalms 69 : 6 (ESV)

Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

Psalms 69 : 7 (ESV)

For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face.

Psalms 69 : 8 (ESV)

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.

Psalms 69 : 9 (ESV)

For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Psalms 69 : 10 (ESV)

When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

Psalms 69 : 11 (ESV)

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Psalms 69 : 12 (ESV)

I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.

Psalms 69 : 13 (ESV)

But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

Psalms 69 : 14 (ESV)

Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

Psalms 69 : 15 (ESV)

Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.

Psalms 69 : 16 (ESV)

Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.

Psalms 69 : 17 (ESV)

Hide not your face from your servant; for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.

Psalms 69 : 18 (ESV)

Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies!

Psalms 69 : 19 (ESV)

You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.

Psalms 69 : 20 (ESV)

Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Psalms 69 : 21 (ESV)

They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.

Psalms 69 : 22 (ESV)

Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.

Psalms 69 : 23 (ESV)

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.

Psalms 69 : 24 (ESV)

Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.

Psalms 69 : 25 (ESV)

May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.

Psalms 69 : 26 (ESV)

For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.

Psalms 69 : 27 (ESV)

Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from you.

Psalms 69 : 28 (ESV)

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

Psalms 69 : 29 (ESV)

But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high!

Psalms 69 : 30 (ESV)

I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Psalms 69 : 31 (ESV)

This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

Psalms 69 : 32 (ESV)

When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

Psalms 69 : 33 (ESV)

For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.

Psalms 69 : 34 (ESV)

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

Psalms 69 : 35 (ESV)

For God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah, and people shall dwell there and possess it;

Psalms 69 : 36 (ESV)

the offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.