Psalms 69 : 1 (HCSB)
*For the choir director: according to "The Lilies." Davidic. Save me, God, for the water has risen to my neck.
Psalms 69 : 2 (HCSB)
I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing; I have come into deep waters, and a flood sweeps over me.
Psalms 69 : 3 (HCSB)
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
Psalms 69 : 4 (HCSB)
Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head; my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me, are powerful. Though I did not steal, I must repay.
Psalms 69 : 5 (HCSB)
God, You know my foolishness, and my guilty acts are not hidden from You.
Psalms 69 : 6 (HCSB)
Do not let those who put their hope in You be disgraced because of me, Lord God of Hosts; do not let those who seek You be humiliated because of me, God of Israel.
Psalms 69 : 7 (HCSB)
For I have endured insults because of You, and shame has covered my face.
Psalms 69 : 8 (HCSB)
I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons
Psalms 69 : 9 (HCSB)
because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
Psalms 69 : 10 (HCSB)
I mourned and fasted, but it brought me insults.
Psalms 69 : 11 (HCSB)
I wore sackcloth as my clothing, and I was a joke to them.
Psalms 69 : 12 (HCSB)
Those who sit at the city gate talk about me, and drunkards make up songs about me.
Psalms 69 : 13 (HCSB)
But as for me, LORD, my prayer to You is for a time of favor. In Your abundant, faithful love, God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
Psalms 69 : 14 (HCSB)
Rescue me from the miry mud; don't let me sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me, and from the deep waters.
Psalms 69 : 15 (HCSB)
Don't let the floodwaters sweep over me or the deep swallow me up; don't let the Pit close its mouth over me.
Psalms 69 : 16 (HCSB)
Answer me, LORD, for Your faithful love is good; in keeping with Your great compassion, turn to me.
Psalms 69 : 17 (HCSB)
Don't hide Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
Psalms 69 : 18 (HCSB)
Draw near to me and redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies.
Psalms 69 : 19 (HCSB)
You know the insults I endure-- my shame and disgrace. You are aware of all my adversaries.
Psalms 69 : 20 (HCSB)
Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I waited for sympathy, but there was none; for comforters, but found no one.
Psalms 69 : 21 (HCSB)
Instead, they gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalms 69 : 22 (HCSB)
Let their table set before them be a snare, and let it be a trap for *their allies.
Psalms 69 : 23 (HCSB)
Let their eyes grow too dim to see, and let their loins continually shake.
Psalms 69 : 24 (HCSB)
Pour out Your rage on them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.
Psalms 69 : 25 (HCSB)
Make their fortification desolate; may no one live in their tents.
Psalms 69 : 26 (HCSB)
For they persecute the one You struck and talk about the pain of those You wounded.
Psalms 69 : 27 (HCSB)
Add guilt to their guilt; do not let them share in Your righteousness.
Psalms 69 : 28 (HCSB)
Let them be erased from the book of life and not be recorded with the righteous.
Psalms 69 : 29 (HCSB)
But as for me-- poor and in pain-- let Your salvation protect me, God.
Psalms 69 : 30 (HCSB)
I will praise God's name with song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 69 : 31 (HCSB)
That will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.
Psalms 69 : 32 (HCSB)
The humble will see it and rejoice. You who seek God, take heart!
Psalms 69 : 33 (HCSB)
For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His own who are prisoners.
Psalms 69 : 34 (HCSB)
Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them,
Psalms 69 : 35 (HCSB)
for God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah. They will live there and possess it.
Psalms 69 : 36 (HCSB)
The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will live in it.
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