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69:1  To the leader: according to Lilies. Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.
69:2  I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
69:3  I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
69:4  More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; many are those who would destroy me, my enemies who accuse me falsely. What I did not steal must I now restore?
69:5  O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
69:6  Do not let those who hope in you be put to shame because of me, O Lord God of hosts; do not let those who seek you be dishonoured because of me, O God of Israel.
69:7  It is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.
69:8  I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother’s children.
69:9  It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
69:10  When I humbled my soul with fasting, they insulted me for doing so.
69:11  When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
69:12  I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
69:13  But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love, answer me. With your faithful help
69:14  rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
69:15  Do not let the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the Pit close its mouth over me.
69:16  Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
69:17  Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress—make haste to answer me.
69:18  Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies.
69:19  You know the insults I receive, and my shame and dishonour; my foes are all known to you.
69:20  Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
69:21  They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22  Let their table be a trap for them, a snare for their allies.
69:23  Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.
69:24  Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.
69:25  May their camp be a desolation; let no one live in their tents.
69:26  For they persecute those whom you have struck down, and those whom you have wounded, they attack still more.
69:27  Add guilt to their guilt; may they have no acquittal from you.
69:28  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
69:29  But I am lowly and in pain; let your salvation, O God, protect me.
69:30  I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
69:31  This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
69:32  Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
69:33  For the Lord hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
69:34  Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
69:35  For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall live there and possess it;
69:36  the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall live in it.