1+ 2\69:1\To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul. 3\69:2\I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 4\69:3\I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God. 5\69:4\They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. 6\69:5\O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. 7\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. 8\69:7\Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. 9\69:8\I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children. 10\69:9\For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me. 11\69:10\When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 12\69:11\I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. 13\69:12\They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 14\69:13\But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 15\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. 16\69:15\Let not the water-flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 17\69:16\Hear me, O LORD; for thy loving-kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. 18\69:17\And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. 19\69:18\Draw nigh to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies. 20\69:19\Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before thee. 21\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. 22\69:21\They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 23\69:22\Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 24\69:23\Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 25\69:24\Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 26\69:25\Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 27\69:26\For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. 28\69:27\Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. 29\69:28\Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 30\69:29\But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. 31\69:30\I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 32\69:31\This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. 33\69:32\The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. 34\69:33\For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. 35\69:34\Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. 36\69:35\For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. 37\69:36\The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.