Psalm 69:1–21

¹Save me, O God!

For ^uthe waters have come up to my neck.¹

²I sink in deep ^vmire,

where there is no foothold;

I have come into deep waters,

and the flood ^wsweeps over me.

^3xI am weary with my crying out;

^ymy throat is parched.

^zMy eyes grow dim

with ^awaiting for my God.

^4bMore in number than the hairs of my head

are ^cthose who hate me ^dwithout cause;

mighty are those who would destroy me,

^ethose who attack me with lies.

What I did not steal

must I now restore?

⁵O God, you know my folly;

the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

⁶Let not those who hope in you ^fbe put to shame through me,

O Lord God of hosts;

let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,

O God of Israel.

⁷For it is ^gfor your sake that I have borne reproach,

that dishonor has covered my face.

⁸I have become ^ha stranger to my brothers,

an alien to my mother’s sons.

⁹For ⁱzeal for your house has consumed me,

and ^jthe reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

¹⁰When I wept and humbled² my soul with fasting,

it became my reproach.

¹¹When I made ^ksackcloth my clothing,

I became ^la byword to them.

¹²I am the talk of those who ^msit in the gate,

and the drunkards make ⁿsongs about me.

¹³But as for me, my ^oprayer is to you, O Lord.

At ^pan acceptable time, O God,

in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

¹⁴Deliver me

from sinking in ^qthe mire;

^rlet me be delivered from my enemies

and from ^sthe deep waters.

¹⁵Let not the flood sweep over me,

or the deep swallow me up,

or ^tthe pit close ^uits mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, O Lord, for your ^vsteadfast love is good;

according to your abundant ^wmercy, ^xturn to me.

^17yHide not your face from your servant,

^zfor I am in distress; ^amake haste to answer me.

¹⁸Draw near to my soul, redeem me;

ransom me because of my enemies!

¹⁹You know my ^breproach,

and my shame and my dishonor;

my foes are all known to you.

^20bReproaches have broken my heart,

so that I am in ^cdespair.

I ^dlooked for ^epity, but there was none,

and for ^fcomforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me ^gpoison for food,

and for my thirst they gave me ^hsour wine to drink.