Psalms 69
36 verses
Psalm 69 is a lament expressing deep distress and social isolation while appealing for divine vindication of innocent suffering, exemplifying the theological concerns of Book 3. The psalmist employs vivid imagery and direct address to God, establishing the intimate dialogue between worshiper and the divine that characterizes the psalmic tradition. The theological assertions center on God's character as both judge and redeemer, creating a comprehensive vision of divine justice and mercy integrated with human experience. The psalm reflects on both personal circumstance and communal identity, suggesting that individual faith finds validation through shared experience with the covenant community. The liturgical context indicates this psalm's function in worship where personal piety integrates with communal celebration of God's acts and attributes. The concluding movement typically affirms confidence in God's faithfulness, exemplifying the psalmic pattern of transformation through prayer and remembrance of divine acts throughout history.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
1
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
0 0Open verse page →
2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
0 0Open verse page →
3
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
0 0Open verse page →
4
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
0 0Open verse page →
5
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
0 0Open verse page →
6
Let 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.
0 0Open verse page →
7
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
0 0Open verse page →
8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
0 0Open verse page →
9
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
0 0Open verse page →
10
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
0 0Open verse page →
11
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
0 0Open verse page →
12
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
0 0Open verse page →
13
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
0 0Open verse page →
14
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
0 0Open verse page →
15
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
0 0Open verse page →
16
Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
0 0Open verse page →
17
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
0 0Open verse page →
18
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
0 0Open verse page →
19
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
0 0Open verse page →
20
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
0 0Open verse page →
21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
0 0Open verse page →
22
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
0 0Open verse page →
23
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
0 0Open verse page →
24
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
0 0Open verse page →
25
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
0 0Open verse page →
26
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
0 0Open verse page →
27
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
0 0Open verse page →
28
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
0 0Open verse page →
29
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
0 0Open verse page →
30
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
0 0Open verse page →
31
This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
0 0Open verse page →
32
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
0 0Open verse page →
33
For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
0 0Open verse page →
34
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
0 0Open verse page →
35
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
0 0Open verse page →
36
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
0 0Open verse page →
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
No notes on this chapter yet. Be the first to write one!