Psalms Chapter 69

• Psalms 69:1
  Psalms.
• Psalms 69:2
  For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
• Psalms 69:3
  I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
• Psalms 69:4
  I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
• Psalms 69:5
  Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to...
• Psalms 69:6
  God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.
• Psalms 69:7
  Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord GOD of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Isra...
• Psalms 69:8
  Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
• Psalms 69:9
  I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
• Psalms 69:10
  For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
• Psalms 69:11
  When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
• Psalms 69:12
  When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
• Psalms 69:13
  Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
• Psalms 69:14
  But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvati...
• Psalms 69:15
  Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
• Psalms 69:16
  Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
• Psalms 69:17
  Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
• Psalms 69:18
  Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
• Psalms 69:19
  Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
• Psalms 69:20
  You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
• Psalms 69:21
  Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
• Psalms 69:22
  They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
• Psalms 69:23
  Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
• Psalms 69:24
  Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.
• Psalms 69:25
  Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
• Psalms 69:26
  Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
• Psalms 69:27
  For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
• Psalms 69:28
  Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
• Psalms 69:29
  Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
• Psalms 69:30
  But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
• Psalms 69:31
  I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
• Psalms 69:32
  It will please the LORD better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
• Psalms 69:33
  The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
• Psalms 69:34
  For the LORD hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
• Psalms 69:35
  Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
• Psalms 69:36
  For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
• Psalms 69:37
  The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.