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| 69:1 | Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. |
| 69:2 | I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. |
| 69:3 | I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. |
| 69:4 | They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. |
| 69:5 | O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. |
| 69:6 | Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. |
| 69:7 | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. |
| 69:8 | I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. |
| 69:9 | For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. |
| 69:10 | When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. |
| 69:11 | I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. |
| 69:12 | They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. |
| 69:13 | But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. |
| 69:14 | Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. |
| 69:15 | Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. |
| 69:16 | Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. |
| 69:17 | And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. |
| 69:18 | Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. |
| 69:19 | Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. |
| 69:20 | Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. |
| 69:21 | They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. |
| 69:22 | Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. |
| 69:23 | Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. |
| 69:24 | Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. |
| 69:25 | Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. |
| 69:26 | For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. |
| 69:27 | Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. |
| 69:28 | Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. |
| 69:29 | But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. |
| 69:30 | I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. |
| 69:31 | This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. |
| 69:32 | The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. |
| 69:33 | For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. |
| 69:34 | Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. |
| 69:35 | For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. |
| 69:36 | The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein. |
| 69:1 | To the chaunter vpon Sosanim of Dauid. Saue me, O God, for the waters are come in euen vnto my soule. |
| 69:2 | I sticke fast in the depe myre, where no ground is: I am come into depe waters, so that the floudes renne ouer me. |
| 69:3 | I am wery of crying, my throte is drie, my sight faileth me, for waytinge so long vpon my God. |
| 69:4 | They that hate me without a cause, are mo then the heeres of my head: they that are myne enemies & wolde destroie me giltlesse are mightie: |
| 69:5 | I payed them the thinges that I neuer toke. God, thou knowest my simplenesse, and my fautes are not hid from the. |
| 69:6 | Let not them that trust in the, O Lord God of Hoostes be ashamed for my cause: let not those that seke the, be confounded thorowe me, O God of Israeli. |
| 69:7 | And why? for thy sake haue I suffred reprofe, shame hath couered my face. |
| 69:8 | I am become a straunger vnto my brethren: euen an aleaunt vnto my mothers children. |
| 69:9 | For the zele of thyne house hath euen eaten me, and the rebukes of them that rebuked the are fallen vpon me. |
| 69:10 | I wepte and chastened my selfe with fastynge, and that was turned to my reprofe. |
| 69:11 | I put on a sacke cloth also, & they iested vpon me. |
| 69:12 | They that sitte in the gate, speake agaynst me, and the dronckardes make songes vpon me. |
| 69:13 | But Lorde I make my prayer vnto the in an acceptable tyme. |
| 69:14 | Heare me, O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, euen in the trueth of thy saluacion. |
| 69:15 | Take me out of the myre, that I sincke not. Oh let me be deliuered from them that hate me, and out of the depe waters. |
| 69:16 | Let not the water floud drowne me: nether let the depe swalowe me vp, and let not the pytte shut her mouth vpon me. |
| 69:17 | Heare me, O Lorde, for thy louyng kyndnesse is comfortable: turne the vnto me accordynge vnto the multitude of thy mercies. |
| 69:18 | And hyde not thy face from thy seruaunt, for I am in trouble: O haste the, and here me. |
| 69:19 | Drawe nye vnto my soule, and saue it: Oh delyuer me because of myne enemies. |
| 69:20 | Thou hast knowen my reprose, my shame and my dyshonour: myne aduersaries are all in thy syght. |
| 69:21 | The rebuke hath broken my herte, I am full of heuynes: I loked for some to haue pitye vpon me, but there was no man: nether founde I anye to comforte me. |
| 69:22 | They gaue me gall to eate, & when I was thyrsty, they gaue me vineger to drinke. |
| 69:23 | Let their table be made a snare to take them selues withall, and let the thinges (that shuld haue bene for their welth) be vnto them an occasion of fallinge. |
| 69:24 | Let their eyes be blinded, that they se not: and euer bowe thou downe their backes. |
| 69:25 | Powre out thyne indignacion vpon them, and let thy wrathfull displeasure take holde of them. |
| 69:26 | Let their habitacion be voyde and no man to dwell in their tentes. |
| 69:27 | For they persecute hym whom thou hast smyte, & they talke how they maye vexe them whom thou hast wounded. |
| 69:28 | Let them fall from one wyckednesse to another, and not come into thy ryghteousnesse. |
| 69:29 | Let them be wyped out of the boke of the lyuyng, & not be wrytten among the ryghteous. |
| 69:30 | As for me, whan I am poore and in heuynesse, thy helpe (O God) shall lyfte me vp. |
| 69:31 | I wyll prayse the name of God with a songe, and magnifye it wt thankesgeuing. |
| 69:32 | This also shall please the Lorde better then a bullocke, that hath hornes and hooffes. |
| 69:33 | The humble shal consydre this, and be glad: seke ye after God, and youre soule shall lyue. |
| 69:34 | For the Lord heareth the poore, and despyseth not his presoners. |
| 69:35 | Let heauen and earth prayse hym, the see & all that moueth therin. |
| 69:36 | For God will saue Syon, and buylde the cyties of Iuda, that men may dwell there, and haue it in possession. The posterite also of his seruauntes shall inheret it: & they that loue hys name, shall dwell therin. |
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