Psalms 68 — LXXSA

(69) For the end, a Psalm of David, for⁺alternate strains.

68Verse 1Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.
^{Verse 2}I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.
^{Verse 3}I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; my eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.
^{Verse 4}They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I⁺restored that which I took not away.
^{Verse 5}O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you.
^{Verse 6}Let not them that wait on you, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek you, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.
^{Verse 7}For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face.
^{Verse 8}I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.
^{Verse 9}For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.
^{Verse 10}And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.
^{Verse 11}And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.
^{Verse 12}They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.
^{Verse 13}But I will cry to you, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
^{Verse 14}Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.
^{Verse 15}Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.
^{Verse 16}Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me.
^{Verse 17}And turn not away your face from your⁺servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.
^{Verse 18}Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
^{Verse 19}For you know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before you.
^{Verse 20}My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none.
^{Verse 21}They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.
^{Verse 22}Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.
^{Verse 23}Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.
^{Verse 24}Pour out your wrath upon them, and let the fury of your anger take hold on them.
^{Verse 25}Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:
^{Verse 26}Because they persecuted him whom you have struck; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
^{Verse 27}Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into your righteousness.
^{Verse 28}Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.
^{Verse 29}I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me.
^{Verse 30}I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;
^{Verse 31}and this shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.
^{Verse 32}Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you⌃ shall live.
^{Verse 33}For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nothing his fettered ones.
^{Verse 34}Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them.
^{Verse 35}For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and men shall dwell there, and inherit it.
^{Verse 36}And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.