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Psalm 69 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Save Me, O God

Psa 69:1

For the choir director. According to [fn]Shoshannim. Of David.

Save me, O God,

For the waters have [fn]threatened my life.

Psa 69:2

I have sunk in deep clay, and there is no foothold;

I have come into deep waters, and a [fn]flood overflows me.

Psa 69:3

I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched;

My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psa 69:4

Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head;

Those who would [fn]destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies;

What I did not steal, I then have to restore.

Psa 69:5

O God, it is You who knows my folly,

And [fn]all my guilt is not hidden from You.

Psa 69:6

May those who hope for You not be ashamed through me, O Lord Yahweh of hosts;

May those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel,

Psa 69:7

Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;

Dishonor has covered my face.

Psa 69:8

I have become estranged [fn]from my brothers

And a foreigner to my mother’s sons.

Psa 69:9

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,

And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

Psa 69:10

When I wept in my soul with fasting,

It became my reproach.

Psa 69:11

When I made sackcloth my clothing,

I became a byword to them.

Psa 69:12

Those who dwell at the gate moan about me,

And I am the drunkards’ songs.

Psa 69:13

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Yahweh, at an acceptable time;

O God, in the abundance of Your lovingkindness,

Answer me with the truth of Your salvation.

Psa 69:14

Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink;

May I be delivered from [fn]my foes and from the [fn]deep waters.

Psa 69:15

May the [fn]flood of water not overflow me

Nor the deep swallow me up,

Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.

Psa 69:16

Answer me, O Yahweh, for Your lovingkindness is good;

According to the abundance of Your compassion, turn to me,

Psa 69:17

And do not hide Your face from Your slave,

For I am in distress; answer me quickly.

Psa 69:18

Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it;

Ransom me because of my enemies!

Psa 69:19

You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor;

All my adversaries are [fn]before You.

Psa 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick.

And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none,

And for comforters, but I found none.

Psa 69:21

They also gave me [fn]gall [fn]for my food

And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psa 69:22

May their table before them become a snare;

And [fn]when they are in peace, may it become a trap.

Psa 69:23

May their eyes darken so that they cannot see,

And make their loins quake continually.

Psa 69:24

Pour out Your indignation on them,

And may Your burning anger overtake them.

Psa 69:25

May their [fn]camp be desolate;

May none dwell in their tents.

Psa 69:26

For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have struck down,

And they recount the pain of those whom You have [fn]wounded.

Psa 69:27

Add iniquity to their iniquity,

And may they not come into Your righteousness.

Psa 69:28

May they be blotted out of the book of life

And may they not be [fn]recorded with the righteous.

Psa 69:29

But I am afflicted and in pain;

[fn]May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.

Psa 69:30

I will praise the name of God with song

And magnify Him with thanksgiving.

Psa 69:31

And this will please Yahweh better than an ox

Or a young bull with horns and hoofs.

Psa 69:32

The humble [fn]see it and are glad;

You who seek God, let your heart [fn]revive.

Psa 69:33

For Yahweh hears the needy

And does not despise His who are prisoners.

Psa 69:34

Let heaven and earth praise Him,

The seas and everything that moves in them.

Psa 69:35

For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah,

That they may dwell there and possess it.

Psa 69:36

The seed of His slaves will inherit it,

And those who love His name will dwell in it.

LSB Footnotes
Or possibly Lilies
Lit come to the soul
Lit flowing stream
Or silence
Lit my guilts
Lit to
Lit those who hate me
Lit deep places of water
Lit stream
Or known to You
Or poison
Or in
Lit for those who are secure
Lit encampment
Lit pierced
Lit written
Or Your salvation, O God, will set...
Some mss and ancient versions will see
Or live
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