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Chapter 69 |
| 1 | Save me, O
God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. |
| 2 | I sink in deep
mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods
overflow me. |
| 3
| I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes
fail while I wait for my God. |
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4 | They that hate me without a cause are
more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine
enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not
away. |
| 5 |
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid
from thee. |
| 6
| Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be
ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O
God of Israel. |
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7 | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame
hath covered my face. |
| 8 | I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and
an alien unto my mother's children. |
| 9 | For the zeal of thine house
hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen
upon me. |
| 10
| When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was
to my reproach. |
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11 | I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a
proverb to them. |
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12 | They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I
was the song of the drunkards. |
| 13 | But as for me, my prayer is
unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy
hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. |
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14 | Deliver me out of the
mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out
of the deep waters. |
| 15 | Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither
let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
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| 16 | Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according
to the multitude of thy tender mercies. |
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17 | And hide not thy face from
thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. |
| 18 | Draw nigh
unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. |
| 19 |
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries
are all before thee. |
| 20 | Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full
of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for
comforters, but I found none. |
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21 | They gave me also gall for my meat;
and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. |
| 22 | Let their
table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their
welfare, let it become a trap. |
| 23 | Let their eyes be darkened,
that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. |
| 24 | Pour
out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of
them. |
| 25 |
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their
tents. |
| 26
| For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they
talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. |
| 27 | Add iniquity
unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. |
| 28 |
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the
righteous. |
| 29
| But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God,
set me up on high. |
| 30 | I will praise the name of God with a song,
and will magnify him with thanksgiving. |
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31 | This also shall please the
LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. |
| 32 | The
humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek
God. |
| 33 |
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his
prisoners. |
| 34
| Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every
thing that moveth therein. |
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35 | For God will save Zion, and will build
the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in
possession. |
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36 | The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and
they that love his name shall dwell therein. |
