Psalms 69:7-36 ▼

7 For because of You I have borne reproach, || Shame has covered my face.

8 I have been a stranger to my brother, || And a foreigner to sons of my mother.

9 For [my] zeal for Your house has consumed me, || And the reproaches of Your reproachers || Have fallen on me.

10 And I weep in the fasting of my soul, || And it is for a reproach to me.

11 And I make my clothing sackcloth, || And I am for an allegory to them.

12 Those sitting at the gate meditate concerning me, || And those drinking strong drink, || Play on instruments.

13 And my prayer [is] to You, O YHWH, || A time of good pleasure, O God, || In the abundance of Your kindness, || Answer me in the truth of Your salvation.

14 Deliver me from the mire, and do not let me sink, || Let me be delivered from those hating me, || And from deep places of waters.

15 Do not let a flood of waters overflow me, || Nor let the deep swallow me up, || Nor let the pit shut her mouth on me.

16 Answer me, O YHWH, for Your kindness [is] good, || Turn to me according to the abundance of Your mercies,

17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant, || For I am in distress—hurry, answer me.

18 Be near to my soul—redeem it, || Ransom me because of my enemies.

19 You have known my reproach, || And my shame, and my blushing, || All my adversaries [are] before You.

20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am sick, || And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, || And for comforters, and I have found none.

21 And they give gall for my food, || And cause me to drink vinegar for my thirst.

22 Their table before them is for a snare, || And for a repayment—for a trap.

23 Their eyes are darkened from seeing, || And their loins continually shake You.

24 Pour Your indignation on them, || And the fierceness of Your anger seizes them.

25 Their tower is desolated, || There is no dweller in their tents.

26 For they have pursued him [whom] You have struck, || And recount of the pain of Your pierced ones.

27 Give punishment for their iniquity, || And they do not enter into Your righteousness.

28 They are blotted out of the scroll of life, || And are not written with the righteous.

29 And I [am] afflicted and pained, || Your salvation, O God, sets me on high.

30 I praise the Name of God with a song, || And I magnify Him with thanksgiving,

31 And it is better to YHWH than an ox, || A bullock—horned [and] hoofed.

32 The humble have seen—they rejoice, || You who seek God—and your heart lives.

33 For YHWH listens to the needy, || And He has not despised His bound ones.

34 The heavens and earth praise Him, || Seas, and every moving thing in them.

35 For God saves Zion, || And builds the cities of Judah, || And they have dwelt there, and possess it.

36 And the seed of His servants inherit it, || And those loving His Name dwell in it!