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To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul (69:1)

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me (69:2)

I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God (69:3)

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 (69:4)

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee (69:5)

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 (69:6)

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face (69:7)

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children (69:8)

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me (69:9)

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach (69:10)

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them (69:11)

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards (69:12)

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 (69:13)

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 (69:14)

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me (69:15)

Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies (69:16)

And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily (69:17)

Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies (69:18)

Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee (69:19)

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 (69:20)

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink (69:21)

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap (69:22)

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake (69:23)

Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them (69:24)

Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents (69:25)

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded (69:26)

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness (69:27)

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous (69:28)

But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high (69:29)

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving (69:30)

This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs (69:31)

The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God (69:32)

For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners (69:33)

Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein (69:34)

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession (69:35)

The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein (69:36)

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