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Psalms 69:1-36 — A Cry of Distress

Ps.69.1-36

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. ²Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. ³I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. ⁴I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail while waiting for my God. ⁵Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head; those who would destroy me are mighty, my enemies without reason. What I did not steal, I must then restore. ⁶O God, you know my folly; my guilty deeds are not hidden from you. ⁷Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be disgraced through me, O God of Israel. ⁸For I have borne reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face. ⁹I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's sons. ¹⁰For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. ¹¹When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became a reproach to me. ¹²When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. ¹³Those who sit at the gate talk about me, and I am the song of the drunkards. ¹⁴But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love, answer me with your sure salvation. ¹⁵Deliver me from the mire, and do not let me sink; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters. ¹⁶Do not let the floodwaters sweep over me, nor let the deep swallow me up, nor let the pit close its mouth over me. ¹⁷Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant compassion, turn to me. ¹⁸And do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress; answer me quickly! ¹⁹Draw near to my soul and redeem it; ransom me because of my enemies! ²⁰You know how I am reproached, shamed, and dishonored; all my adversaries are in plain sight before you . ²¹Reproach has broken my heart, and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. ²²They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. ²³Let their table before them become a snare, and their peace offerings a trap. ²⁴Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually. ²⁵Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them. ²⁶Let their encampment be desolate; let no one dwell in their tents. ²⁷For they persecute the one whom you have struck, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded. ²⁸Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not enter into your righteousness. ²⁹Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be enrolled with the righteous. ³⁰But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me securely on high. ³¹I will praise the name of God with a song, and I will magnify him with thanksgiving. ³²This will please the LORD more than an ox, or a bull with horns and hooves. ³³The humble will see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive. ³⁴For the LORD hears the needy, and he does not despise his captive people. ³⁵Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them. ³⁶For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.

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4/11/2026

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