Psalm 69
A Cry Of Distress And Imprecation On Adversaries.
For the choir director; according to Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.
For the waters have threatened my life.
I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies;
What I did not steal, I then have to restore.
And my wrongs are not hidden from You.
May those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel,
Dishonor has covered my face.
And an alien to my mother’s sons.
And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
It became my reproach.
I became a byword to them.
And I am the song of the drunkards.
O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness,
Answer me with Your saving truth.
May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.
Nor the deep swallow me up,
Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.
According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me,
For I am in distress; answer me quickly.
Ransom me because of my enemies!
All my adversaries are before You.
And I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
And for comforters, but I found none.
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.
And make their loins shake continually.
And may Your burning anger overtake them.
May none dwell in their tents.
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.
And may they not come into Your righteousness.
And may they not be recorded with the righteous.
May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.
And magnify Him with thanksgiving.
Or a young bull with horns and hoofs.
You who seek God, let your heart revive.
And does not despise His who are prisoners.
The seas and everything that moves in them.
That they may dwell there and possess it.
And those who love His name will dwell in it.