Psalm 69:1–21

¹Save me, O God! For ^athe waters have come up to my ²neck.

^2bI sink in deep mire,

Where there is no standing;

I have come into deep waters,

Where the floods overflow me.

^3cI am weary with my crying;

My throat is dry;

^dMy eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁴Those who ^ehate me without a cause

Are more than the hairs of my head;

They are mighty who would destroy me,

Being my enemies wrongfully;

Though I have stolen nothing,

I still must restore it.

⁵O God, You know my foolishness;

And my sins are not hidden from You.

⁶Let not those who ³wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me;

Let not those who seek You be ⁴confounded because of me, O God of Israel.

⁷Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;

Shame has covered my face.

^8fI have become a stranger to my brothers,

And an alien to my mother’s children;

^9gBecause zeal for Your house has eaten me up,

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

¹⁰When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,

That became my reproach.

¹¹I also ⁵made sackcloth my garment;

I became a byword to them.

¹²Those who ⁶sit in the gate speak against me,

And I am the song of the ⁱdrunkards.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to You,

O Lord, in the acceptable time;

O God, in the multitude of Your mercy,

Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.

¹⁴Deliver me out of the mire,

And let me not sink;

Let me be delivered from those who hate me,

And out of the deep waters.

¹⁵Let not the floodwater overflow me,

Nor let the deep swallow me up;

And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

¹⁶Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;

Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.

¹⁷And do not hide Your face from Your servant,

For I am in trouble;

Hear me speedily.

¹⁸Draw near to my soul, and redeem it;

Deliver me because of my enemies.

¹⁹You know ^jmy reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;

My adversaries are all before You.

²⁰Reproach has broken my heart,

And I am full of ⁷heaviness;

^kI looked for someone to take pity, but there was none;

And for ^lcomforters, but I found none.

²¹They also gave me gall for my food,

^mAnd for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.