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69:1  Save me, O my God. The floods have risen. Deeper and deeper I sink in the mire; the waters rise around me.
69:2  Save me, O my God. The floods have risen. Deeper and deeper I sink in the mire; the waters rise around me.
69:3  I have wept until I am exhausted; my throat is dry and hoarse; my eyes are swollen with weeping, waiting for my God to act.
69:4  I cannot even count all those who hate me without cause. They are influential men, these who plot to kill me though I am innocent. They demand that I be punished for what I didn’t do.
69:5  O God, you know so well how stupid I am, and you know all my sins.
69:6  O Lord God of the armies of heaven, don’t let me be a stumbling block to those who trust in you. O God of Israel, don’t let me cause them to be confused,
69:7  though I am mocked and cursed and shamed for your sake.
69:8  Even my own brothers pretend they don’t know me!
69:9  My zeal for God and his work burns hot within me. And because I advocate your cause, your enemies insult me even as they insult you.
69:10  How they scoff and mock me when I mourn and fast before the Lord!
69:11  How they talk about me when I wear sackcloth to show my humiliation and sorrow for my sins!
69:12  I am the talk of the town and the song of the drunkards.
69:13  But I keep right on praying to you, Lord. For now is the time—you are bending down to hear! You are ready with a plentiful supply of love and kindness. Now answer my prayer and rescue me as you promised.
69:14  Pull me out of this mire. Don’t let me sink in. Rescue me from those who hate me, and from these deep waters I am in.
69:15  Don’t let the floods overwhelm me or the ocean swallow me; save me from the pit that threatens me.
69:16  O Jehovah, answer my prayers, for your loving-kindness is wonderful; your mercy is so plentiful, so tender and so kind.
69:17  Don’t hide from me, for I am in deep trouble. Quick! Come and save me.
69:18  Come, Lord, and rescue me. Ransom me from all my enemies.
69:19  You know how they talk about me, and how they so shamefully dishonor me. You see them all and know what each has said.
69:20  Their contempt has broken my heart; my spirit is heavy within me. If even one would show some pity, if even one would comfort me!
69:21  For food they gave me gall; for my awful thirst they offered vinegar.
69:22  Let their joys turn to ashes and their peace disappear;
69:23  let darkness, blindness, and great feebleness be theirs.
69:24  Pour out your fury upon them; consume them with the fierceness of your anger.
69:25  Let their homes be desolate and abandoned.
69:26  For they persecute the one you have smitten and scoff at the pain of the one you have pierced.
69:27  Pile their sins high and do not overlook them.
69:28  Let these men be blotted from the list of the living; do not give them the joys of life with the righteous.
69:29  But rescue me, O God, from my poverty and pain.
69:30  Then I will praise God with my singing! My thanks will be his praise—
69:31  that will please him more than sacrificing a bullock or an ox.
69:32  The humble shall see their God at work for them. No wonder they will be so glad! All who seek for God shall live in joy.
69:33  For Jehovah hears the cries of his needy ones and does not look the other way.
69:34  Praise him, all heaven and earth! Praise him, all the seas and everything in them!
69:35  For God will save Jerusalem; he rebuilds the cities of Judah. His people shall live in them and not be dispossessed.
69:36  Their children shall inherit the land; all who love his name shall live there safely.