69:1 Save me, God, For the waters have come up to my neck!

69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

69:3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

69:4 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.

69:5 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren`t hidden from you.

69:6 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.

69:7 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, An alien to my mother`s children.

69:9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

69:10 When I wept and I fasted, That was to my reproach.

69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

69:12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

69:13 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.

69:14 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.

69:15 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.

69:16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your lovingkindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

69:17 Don`t hide your face from your servant, For I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

69:18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

69:19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

69:20 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.

69:21 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

69:22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can`t see. Make their loins continually to shake.

69:24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

69:25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

69:26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

69:27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don`t let them come into your righteousness.

69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.

69:29 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify him with thanksgiving.

69:31 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, Or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

69:32 The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

69:33 For Yahweh hears the needy, And doesn`t despise his captive people.

69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him; The seas, and everything that moves therein!

69:35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.