| 69:1
| Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
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| 69:2
| I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep
waters, where the floods overflow me.
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| 69:3
| I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait
for my God.
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| 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.
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| 69:5
| O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
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| 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.
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| 69:7
| Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
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| 69:8
| I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's
children.
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| 69:9
| For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them
that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
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| 69:10
| When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my
reproach.
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| 69:11
| I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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| 69:12
| They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the
drunkards.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 69:16
| Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according
to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
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| 69:17
| And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me
speedily.
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| 69:18
| Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine
enemies.
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| 69:19
| Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine
adversaries are all before thee.
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| 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.
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| 69:21
| They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me
vinegar to drink.
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| 69:22
| Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have
been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
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| 69:23
| Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins
continually to shake.
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| 69:24
| Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take
hold of them.
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| 69:25
| Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
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| 69:26
| For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the
grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
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| 69:27
| Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy
righteousness.
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| 69:28
| Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written
with the righteous.
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| 69:29
| But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on
high.
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| 69:30
| I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with
thanksgiving.
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| 69:31
| This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath
horns and hoofs.
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| 69:32
| The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that
seek God.
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| 69:33
| For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
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| 69:34
| Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that
moveth therein.
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| 69:35
| For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they
may dwell there, and have it in possession.
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| 69:36
| The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his
name shall dwell therein.
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