| Chapter 69 |
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Save me, 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, where the floods overflow me. |
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I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God. |
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Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn`t take away. |
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God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren`t hidden from you. |
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Don`t let those who wait for you be put to shame through me, Lord Yahweh of Hosts. Don`t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel. |
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Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. |
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I have become a stranger to my brothers, An alien to my mother`s children. |
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For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. |
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When I wept and I fasted, That was to my reproach. |
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When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. |
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Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards. |
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But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your lovingkindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. |
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Deliver me out of the mire, and don`t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. |
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Don`t let the flood waters overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up. Don`t let the pit shut its mouth on me. |
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Answer me, Yahweh, for your lovingkindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. |
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Don`t hide your face from your servant, For I am in distress. Answer me speedily! |
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Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies. |
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You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. |
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Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; For comforters, but I found none. |
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They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. |
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Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. |
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Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can`t see. Make their loins continually to shake. |
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Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. |
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Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. |
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For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. |
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Charge them with crime upon crime. Don`t let them come into your righteousness. |
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Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous. |
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But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me. |
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I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify him with thanksgiving. |
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It will please Yahweh better than an ox, Or a bull that has horns and hoofs. |
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The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live. |
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For Yahweh hears the needy, And doesn`t despise his captive people. |
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Let heaven and earth praise him; The seas, and everything that moves therein! |
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For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it. |
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The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein. Psalm 70 For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. |