Psalm 69:1-36 CSB

[1] Save me, God, for the water has risen to my neck. [2] I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing; I have come into deep water, and a flood sweeps over me. [3] I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God. [4] 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. [5] God, you know my foolishness, and my guilty acts are not hidden from you. [6] Do not let those who put their hope in you be disgraced because of me, Lord GOD of Armies; do not let those who seek you be humiliated because of me, God of Israel. [7] For I have endured insults because of you, and shame has covered my face. [8] I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons [9] because zeal for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me. [10] I mourned and fasted, but it brought me insults. [11] I wore sackcloth as my clothing, and I was a joke to them. [12] Those who sit at the city gate talk about me, and drunkards make up songs about me. [13] 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. [14] Rescue me from the miry mud; don't let me sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water. [15] Don't let the floodwaters sweep over me or the deep swallow me up; don't let the Pit close its mouth over me. [16] Answer me, LORD, for your faithful love is good. In keeping with your abundant compassion, turn to me. [17] Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly! [18] Come near to me and redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies. [19] You know the insults I endure- my shame and disgrace. You are aware of all my adversaries. [20] Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I waited for sympathy, but there was none; for comforters, but found no one. [21] Instead, they gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. [22] Let their table set before them be a snare, and let it be a trap for their allies. [23] Let their eyes grow too dim to see, and let their hips continually quake. [24] Pour out your rage on them, and let your burning anger overtake them. [25] Make their fortification desolate; may no one live in their tents. [26] For they persecute the one you struck and talk about the pain of those you wounded. [27] Charge them with crime on top of crime; do not let them share in your righteousness. [28] Let them be erased from the book of life and not be recorded with the righteous. [29] But as for me-poor and in pain- let your salvation protect me, God. [30] I will praise God's name with song and exalt him with thanksgiving. [31] That will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves. [32] The humble will see it and rejoice. You who seek God, take heart! [33] For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners. [34] Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them, [35] for God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah. They will live there and possess it. [36] The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will live in it.