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Psalms 68
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1(69) For the end, [a Psalm] of David, for alternate [strains]. Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.
1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
2I 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.
2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3I am weary [of] crying, my throat has become hoarse; my eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.
3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4They 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.
4They 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.
5O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you.
5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
6Let 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.
6Let 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.
7For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face.
7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.
8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
9For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.
9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.
10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.
11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.
12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13But 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.
13But 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.
14Save me from the mire, that I stick not [in it]: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.
14Deliver 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.
15Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.
15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me.
16Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
17And turn not away your face from your servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.
17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18Draw near to my souland redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19For you know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before you.
19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
20My 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.
20Reproach 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.
21They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst .
21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.
22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23Let their eyes be darkenedthat they should not see ; and bow down their back continually .
23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24Pour out your wrath upon them, and let the fury of your anger take hold on them.
24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:
25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26Because they persecuted him whom you have struck; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
27Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into your righteousness.
27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me .
29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;
30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31and [this] shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.
31This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you⌃ shall live .
32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
33For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nothing his fettered ones.
33For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
34Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them.
34Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
35For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and [men] shall dwell there, and inherit it .
35For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
36And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.