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69:1  For the leader. Set to “Lilies.” By David:
69:2  Save me, God! For the water threatens my life.
69:3  I am sinking down in the mud, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep water; the flood is sweeping over me.
69:4  I am exhausted from crying, my throat is dry and sore, my eyes are worn out with looking for my God.
69:5  Those who hate me for no reason outnumber the hairs on my head. My persecutors are powerful, my enemies accuse me falsely. Am I expected to return things I didn’t steal?
69:6  God, you know how foolish I am; my guilt is not hidden from you.
69:7  Let those who put their hope in you, Adonai Elohim-Tzva’ot, not be put to shame through me; let those who are seeking you, God of Isra’el, not be disgraced through me.
69:8  For your sake I suffer insults, shame covers my face.
69:9  I am estranged from my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children,
69:10  because zeal for your house is eating me up, and on me are falling the insults of those insulting you.
69:11  I weep bitterly, and I fast, but that too occasions insults.
69:12  I clothe myself with sackcloth and become an object of scorn,
69:13  the gossip of those sitting by the town gate, the theme of drunkards’ songs.
69:14  As for me, Adonai, let my prayer to you come at an acceptable time; In your great grace, God, answer me with the truth of your salvation.
69:15  Rescue me from the mud! Don’t let me sink! Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water.
69:16  Don’t let the floodwaters overwhelm me, don’t let the deep swallow me up, don’t let the pit close its mouth over me.
69:17  Answer me, Adonai, for your grace is good; in your great mercy, turn to me.
69:18  Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; answer me quickly.
69:19  Come near to me, and redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies.
69:20  You know how I am insulted, shamed and disgraced; before you stand all my foes.
69:21  Insults have broken my heart to the point that I could die. I hoped that someone would show compassion, but nobody did; and that there would be comforters, but I found none.
69:22  They put poison in my food; in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:23  Let their dining table before them become a snare; when they are at peace, let it become a trap;
69:24  let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see, and let their bodies always be stumbling.
69:25  Pour out your fury on them, let your fierce anger overtake them.
69:26  Let the place where they live be desolate, with no one to live in their tents,
69:27  for persecuting someone you had already stricken, for adding to the pain of those you wounded.
69:28  Add guilt to their guilt, don’t let them enter your righteousness.
69:29  Erase them from the book of life, let them not be written with the righteous.
69:30  Meanwhile, I am afflicted and hurting; God, let your saving power raise me up.
69:31  I will praise God’s name with a song and extol him with thanksgiving.
69:32  This will please Adonai more than a bull, with its horns and hoofs.
69:33  The afflicted will see it and rejoice; you seeking after God, let your heart revive.
69:34  For Adonai pays attention to the needy and doesn’t scorn his captive people.
69:35  Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and whatever moves in them.
69:36  For God will save Tziyon, he will build the cities of Y’hudah. [His people] will settle there and possess it.