Psalm 69:1-36 AMPC

[1] Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck [they threaten my life]. [2] I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overwhelm me. [3] I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail with waiting [hopefully] for my God. [4] Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would cut me off and destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are many and mighty. I am [forced] to restore what I did not steal. [5] O God, You know my folly and blundering; my sins and my guilt are not hidden from You. [6] Let not those who wait and hope and look for You, O Lord of hosts, be put to shame through me; let not those who seek and inquire for and require You [as their vital necessity] be brought to confusion and dishonor through me, O God of Israel. [7] Because for Your sake I have borne taunt and reproach; confusion and shame have covered my face. [8] I have become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children. [9] For zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches and insults of those who reproach and insult You have fallen upon me. [10] When I wept and humbled myself with fasting, I was jeered at and humiliated; [11] When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword (an object of scorn) to them. [12] They who sit in [the city's] gate talk about me, and I am the song of the drunkards. [13] But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord. At an acceptable and opportune time, O God, in the multitude of Your mercy and the abundance of Your loving-kindness hear me, and in the truth and faithfulness of Your salvation answer me. [14] Rescue me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me and from out of the deep waters. [15] Let not the floodwaters overflow and overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up nor the [dug] pit [with water perhaps in the bottom] close its mouth over me. [16] Hear and answer me, O Lord, for Your loving-kindness is sweet and comforting; according to Your plenteous tender mercy and steadfast love turn to me. [17] Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress; O answer me speedily! [18] Draw close to me and redeem me; ransom and set me free because of my enemies [lest they glory in my prolonged distress]! [19] You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before You [fully known to You]. [20] Insults and reproach have broken my heart; I am full of heaviness and I am distressingly sick. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. [21] They gave me also gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar (a soured wine) to drink. [22] Let their own table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare to them; and when they are secure in peace [or at their sacrificial feasts, let it become] a trap to them. [23] Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually [from terror, dismay, and feebleness]. [24] Pour out Your indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of Your burning anger catch up with them. [25] Let their habitation and their encampment be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents. [26] For they pursue and persecute him whom You have smitten, and they gossip about those whom You have wounded, [adding] to their grief and pain. [27] Let one [unforgiven] perverseness and iniquity accumulate upon another for them [in Your book], and let them not come into Your righteousness or be justified and acquitted by You. [28] Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and the book of life and not be enrolled among the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright and in right standing with God). [29] But I am poor, sorrowful, and in pain; let Your 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] And it will please the Lord better than an ox or a bullock that has horns and hoofs. [32] The humble shall see it and be glad; you who seek God, inquiring for and requiring Him [as your first need], let your hearts revive and live! [33] For the Lord hears the poor and needy and despises not His prisoners (His miserable and wounded ones). [34] Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them. [35] For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and [His servants] shall remain and dwell there and have it in their possession; [36] The children of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His name shall dwell in it.