Psalms Chapter 69 (ESV)
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Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
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I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
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I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
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More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
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O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
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Let not those who hope in you be 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.
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For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face.
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I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.
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For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
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When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
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When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
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I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
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But 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 in your saving faithfulness.
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Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
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Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.
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Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
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Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.
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Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies!
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You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.
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Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
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They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
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Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.
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Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.
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Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.
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May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.
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For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
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Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from you.
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Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
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But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high!
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I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
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This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
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When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
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For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
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Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
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For God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah, and people shall dwell there and possess it;
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the offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.
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