<TITLE>Psalms 069</TITLE><BR>Psalms 69 <BR>1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.<BR>2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.<BR>3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.<BR>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.<BR>5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.<BR>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.<BR>7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.<BR>8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.<BR>9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.<BR>10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.<BR>11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.<BR>12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.<BR>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.<BR>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.<BR>15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.<BR>16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.<BR>17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.<BR>18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.<BR>19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.<BR>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.<BR>21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.<BR>22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.<BR>23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.<BR>24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.<BR>25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.<BR>26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.<BR>27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.<BR>28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.<BR>29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.<BR>30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.<BR>31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.<BR>32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.<BR>33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.<BR>34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.<BR>35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.<BR>36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.<BR><BR><BR>