Psalms 69:1-36

DouayRheims(i) 1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. (69:2) Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. 2 (69:3) I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me. 3 (69:4) I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God. 4 (69:5) They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away. 5 (69:6) O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee: 6 (69:7) Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel. 7 (69:8) Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. 8 (69:9) I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother. 9 (69:10) For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. 10 (69:11) And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me. 11 (69:12) And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them. 12 (69:13) They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song. 13 (69:14) But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 14 (69:15) Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 (69:16) Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16 (69:17) Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. 17 (69:18) And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily. 18 (69:19) Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies. 19 (69:20) Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame. 20 (69:21) In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none. 21 (69:22) And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22 (69:23) Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock. 23 (69:24) Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always. 24 (69:25) Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 (69:26) Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles. 26 (69:27) Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. 27 (69:28) Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice. 28 (69:29) Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written. 29 (69:30) But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up. 30 (69:31) I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise. 31 (69:32) And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs. 32 (69:33) Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live. 33 (69:34) For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners. 34 (69:35) Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein. 35 (69:36) For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance. 36 (69:37) And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.