Psalm 69
(English translation got from website: https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo
except for verse 11 which follows the version of https://www.bible.com/ )
- For the conductor, on shoshannim, of David.
- Save me, O God, for water has come up to my soul.
- I have sunk in muddy depths and there is no place to stand; I have come into the deep water, and the current has swept me away.
- I have become weary from calling out; my throat has become parched; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Those who hate me for nothing are more numerous than the hairs of my head; mighty are those who would cut me off, who are my enemies because of lies; what I did not steal, I will then return.
- O God, You know my folly, and my acts of guilt are not concealed from You.
- Do not let those who hope for You be shamed through me, O Lord God of Hosts; let those who seek You not be disgraced through me, O God of Israel.
- For I have borne humiliation because of You; disgrace has covered my face.
- I was strange to my brothers, and alien to the sons of my mother.
- For the envy of Your house has consumed me, and the humiliations of those who blaspheme You have fallen upon me.
- When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;
- And I made sackcloth my raiment, and I became a byword to them.
- They talk about me, those who sit in the gate, and [they make] melodies [about me] for those who imbibe strong drink.
- But, as for me, may my prayer to You, O Lord, be in an acceptable time. O God, with Your abundant kindness, answer me with the truth of Your salvation.
- Save me from mud that I not sink, that I be saved from my enemies and from the depths of water.
- Let neither the current of water sweep me away, nor the deep swallow me, and let a well not close its mouth over me.
- Answer me, O Lord, for Your kindness is good; according to Your abundant mercies, turn to me.
- And do not hide Your face from Your servant, because I am distressed, hasten to answer me.
- Come close to my soul, redeem it; because of my enemies, redeem me.
- You know my humiliation, my shame, and my disgrace; all my oppressors are before You.
- Humiliation has broken my heart and I have become ill; I hoped for sympathy but there was none, and for comforters but I found none.
- They put gall into my food and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- May their table before them become a trap, and [their hope] for peace become a snare.
- May their eyes become dark, so they cannot see; constantly cause their loins to slip.
- Pour out Your fury upon them, and may Your burning wrath overtake them.
- May their palace be desolate; in their tents let there be no dweller.
- For You-those whom You smote they pursued, and about the pain of those whom You wounded they tell.
- Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into Your charity.
- May they be erased from the book of life, and may they not be inscribed with the righteous.
- But I am poor and in pain; may Your salvation, O God, exalt me.
- I shall praise the name of God with song, and I shall magnify Him with a thanksgiving offering.
- And it will appeal to the Lord more than a young bull that is mature, with horns and hooves.
- When the humble see, they rejoice, yea, those who seek God, and your heart will be invigorated.
- For God hearkens to the needy, and He does not despise His prisoners.
- Heaven and earth will praise Him, the seas and everything that moves therein,
- When God saves Zion and builds the cities of Judah, and they dwell there and take possession of it.
- And the seed of His servants inherit it, and those who love His name dwell therein.