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          DASV: Psalm 69    

For the music director, according to Lilies, of David

1 Save me, O God,
     for the waters have reached up to my neck.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no solid foothold;
     I am in deep waters, where the floods wash over me.
3 I am weary from crying for help;
     my throat is dry;
           my eyes fail from waiting for my God.
4 Those who hate me without a cause
     are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
      those who want to deceitfully destroy me,
     my enemies, are many;
           I am forced to repay what I did not steal.

5 O God, you know my foolishness;
     my sins are not hidden from you.
6 Do not allow those who hope in you to be put to shame because of me,
     O Lord God of hosts.
      Do not allow those who seek you be dishonored because of me,
     O God of Israel.
7 Because for your sake I have borne insults;
     shame has covered my face.
8 I am treated like a stranger by my own brothers,
     and an alien by my mother's children.
9 For the zeal of your house has consumed me;
     the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
10 I weep with fasting,
     yet they insult me.
11 When I wear sackcloth,
     I have become a standing joke to them.
12 Those who sit in the city gate slander me;
     I have become the song of the drunkards.

13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD,
     hoping for a time of your favor;
           O God, in the greatness of your loyal love,
     answer me with your faithful salvation.
14 Save me from the mire, and do let me sink;
     deliver me from those who hate me,
           and from the deep waters.
15 Do not allow the floods to sweep over me,
     or the deep to shallow me up,
           or the pit to shut its mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O LORD;
     your loyal love is good;
           according to the greatness of your mercy, turn toward me.
17 Do not hide your face from your servant;
     I am in trouble;
           answer me quickly.
18 Draw near to me, and redeem me;
     pay the ransom for me because of my enemies.

19 You know my reproach, my shame and my dishonor;
     my foes are before your face.
20 Insults have broken my heart
     so that I am in despair;
           I looked for someone to show pity,
     but there was no one,
      for comforters,
          but found none.

21 They put bitter gall in my food;
     for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their dining table before them become a snare,
     and their prosperity become a trap.
23 Let their eyes go blind, so that they cannot see,
     and make their loins shake continually.
24 Pour out your indignation on them,
     and let your raging anger overtake them.
25 Let their camp be desolate,
     with no one dwelling in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom you have punished;
     they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
27 Add punishment onto their punishment;
     do not let them enter your vindication.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life,
     and not be listed with the righteous.

29 I am oppressed and suffering;
     let your salvation, O God, set me on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with song,
     and magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 This will please the LORD more than an ox,
     or a bull that has horns and hooves.
32 Let the oppressed see it and be glad;
     you who seek after God, let your hearts revive.
33 For the LORD hears the needy,
     and does not despise his imprisoned people.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him,
     the seas and everything that moves in them.
35 For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah,
     his people will again live there and take possession of it.
36 The children of his servants will inherit it;
     those who love his name will dwell in it.

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