Psalms 68

¹Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David.

²Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul.

³I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me.

⁴I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God.

⁵Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.

⁶O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.

⁷Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me.

⁸For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.

⁹I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.

¹⁰For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me.

¹¹And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.

¹²And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.

¹³Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song.

¹⁴But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me.

¹⁵Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters.

¹⁶Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me.

¹⁷Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.

¹⁸And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.

¹⁹Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.

²⁰You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.

²¹All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one.

²²And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

²³Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.

²⁴Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.

²⁵Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.

²⁶May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.

²⁷For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.

²⁸Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.

²⁹Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.

³⁰I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.

³¹I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.

³²And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.

³³Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.

³⁴For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.

³⁵Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.

³⁶For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance.

³⁷And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.

Psalms 68

¹Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.

²Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.

³I 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.

⁴I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

⁵They 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.

⁶O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:

⁷Let 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.

⁸Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

⁹I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

¹⁰For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

¹¹And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.

¹²And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.

¹³They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.

¹⁴But 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.

¹⁵Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

¹⁶Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

¹⁷Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

¹⁸And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.

¹⁹Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.

²⁰Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.

²¹In 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.

²²And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²³Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

²⁴Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.

²⁵Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

²⁶Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.

²⁷Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

²⁸Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.

²⁹Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.

³⁰But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.

³¹I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.

³²And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.

³³Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.

³⁴For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.

³⁵Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.

³⁶For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.

³⁷And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.