Psalm 69:1-36 MEV

[1] Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my throat. [2] I sink in deep mire; there is no standing place; I have come into the watery depths, and a stream overflows me. [3] I am weary of my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail while I wait for my God. [4] Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head; they are mighty who would destroy me, being my wrongful enemies, so that I must pay back what I did not steal. [5] O God, You know my folly, and my sins are not hidden from You. [6] May those who wait on You, O Lord GOD of Hosts, not be ashamed because of me; may those who seek You not be humiliated because of me, O God of Israel. [7] Because for Your sake I have endured insult; humiliation has covered my face. [8] I have become estranged to my relatives, and a foreigner to my mother's children; [9] for the zeal of Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insulted You fell on me. [10] When I wept with fasting for my soul, it became an insult to me. [11] I also made sackcloth my garment, and I became a byword to them. [12] Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the song of the drunkards. [13] But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD; in an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of Your mercy, answer me in the truth of Your salvation. [14] Deliver me out of the mire that I may not sink; may I be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the watery depths. [15] May the stream not overflow me; neither may the deep swallow me up, nor the pit close its mouth on me. [16] Answer me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good; turn Your face to me according to the abundance of Your tender mercies. [17] Do not hide Your face from Your servant, for I am in trouble; answer me quickly. [18] Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies. [19] You have known how I am insulted, and my shame and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before You. [20] Insults have broken my heart, and I am sick; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. [21] They also gave me poison for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. [22] May their table become a snare before them, and may security become a trap. [23] May their eyes be darkened so they do not see, and make their sides shake continually. [24] Pour out Your indignation on them, and may Your wrathful anger overtake them. [25] May their habitation be desolate, and may no one dwell in their tents. [26] For they persecute him whom You have struck down, and they recount the pain of those You have wounded. [27] Add punishment to their iniquity, and do not let them come into Your righteousness. [28] Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written along with the righteous. [29] But I am poor and in pain; may Your salvation, O God, set me secure on high. [30] I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving. [31] This also will please the LORD more than an ox or bull with horns and hoofs. [32] The humble will see this and be glad; and you who seek God, may your heart live. [33] For the LORD hears the poor, and does not despise His prisoners. [34] Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them. [35] For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; that they may dwell there, and take possession of it. [36] The descendants of His servants will inherit it; and those who love His name will dwell in it.