Psalm 69:1–21

Save me, O God; for ^athe waters are come in ^bunto my soul.

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

I am come into deep waters, where ^ethe floods ^eeoverflow me.

^3fI am weary of my crying: my throat is dried:

^gMine eyes fail ^hwhile I wait for my God.

⁴ⁱThey that hate me without a cause ^jare moe than the hairs of mine head:

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

^kThen I restored that which I took not away.

⁵O God, thou knowest my foolishness;

And my sins are not hid from thee.

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.

⁷Because ^lfor thy sake I have borne reproach;

Shame hath covered my face.

⁸I ^mam become a stranger unto ⁿmy brethren,

And an alien unto my mother’s children.

⁹For ^othe zeal of thine house hath eaten me up;

And ^pthe reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

¹⁰When I wept, and chastened ^qmy soul with fasting,

That was to my reproach.

¹¹I made ^qrsackcloth also my garment;

And I became ^sa proverb to them.

¹²They that sit in the gate speak against me;

And I was the ^tsong of the drunkards.

¹³But as for me, ^umy prayer is unto thee, O Lord, ^win an acceptable time:

O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

¹⁴Deliver me ^xout of the mire, and let me not ^ysink:

^zLet me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the ^ydeep waters.

¹⁵Let not the ^awaterflood overflow me,

Neither let ^athe deep swallow me up,

And let not ^bthe pit ^cshut her mouth upon me.

¹⁶Hear me, O Lord; ^dfor thy lovingkindness is good:

^eTurn unto me ^faccording to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

¹⁷And ^ghide not thy face from thy servant;

For I ^ham in trouble: ⁱhear me speedily.

¹⁸Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:

Deliver me because of mine enemies.

¹⁹Thou hast known ^jmy reproach, and ^kmy shame, and my dishonour:

Mine adversaries are all before thee.

²⁰Reproach hath broken my heart; and ^lI am full of heaviness:

And ^mI looked for some to take pity, but there was none;

And for ⁿcomforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me also ^ogall for my meat;

And ^pin my thirst they gave me ^qvinegar to drink.