Psalm 69:1–21

¹Save me, O God;

For the waters are come in unto my soul.

²I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing:

I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

³I am weary with 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:

They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty:

That which I took not away I have to restore.

⁵O God, thou knowest my foolishness;

And my sins are not hid from thee.

⁶Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts:

Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

⁷Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;

Shame hath covered my face.

⁸I am become a stranger unto my brethren,

And an alien unto my mother’s children.

⁹For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up;

And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

¹⁰When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting,

That was to my reproach.

¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing,

I became a byword unto them.

¹²They that sit in the gate talk of me;

And I am the song of the drunkards.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time:

O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness,

Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.

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 overwhelm me,

Neither let the deep swallow me up;

And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

¹⁶Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good:

According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.

¹⁷And hide not thy face from thy servant;

For I am in distress; answer me speedily.

¹⁸Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:

Ransom me because of mine enemies.

¹⁹Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor:

Mine adversaries are all before thee.

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 in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.