^1aTo the choirmaster on Shoshannim.↑

A Psalm of David.

^1bSave me, O God,

For waters have come to the point of threatening my life.

²I am sinking in deep mire,

And there is no foothold.

I have come into depths of water,

And the swell is engulfing me.

³I am weary with crying out;

My throat is parched,

And my eyes are exhausted,

As I wait for my God.

Are more numerous than the hairs of my head.

Those who would kill me

– My enemies on false grounds –

Are mighty,

But I have not exploited them,

Otherwise I would restore it.

⁵O God, you know my foolishness,

And my misdeeds are not hidden from you.

⁶Do not let those who put hope in you

Be ashamed on my account, O my Lord the Lord of hosts.

Do not let those who seek you

Be discredited on account of me,

O God of Israel.

⁷For I have uttered a reproach against you;

Ignominy covers my face.

⁸I became estranged from my brothers,

And a foreigner to my mother's sons.

¹⁰And I wept subjecting myself to fasting,

But it became a reproach against me.

¹¹And I put sackcloth on as my clothing,

And I became a byword to them.

¹²Those who sit at the gate speak against me,

And those who drink strong wine

Make me the subject of their songs.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord,

At an acceptable time, O God.

In your great kindness,

Answer me with your saving truth.

¹⁴Deliver me from the mire,

And do not let me sink.

Let me be delivered from those who hate me,

And from the watery depths.

¹⁵Do not let the swell of water engulf me,

And do not let the deep swallow me up,

And do not let the pit close its mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, O Lord,

For your kindness is good;

Turn to me in accordance with the abundance of your mercy.

¹⁷And do not hide your face from your servant,

For I am in a strait.

Make haste in answering me.

¹⁸Draw near to my being

And redeem it;

Ransom me on account of my enemies.

¹⁹For you know my reproach,

And my shame and my ignominy.

All my adversaries are before you.

²⁰Reproach broke my heart,

And I became ill,

And I hoped to be consoled,

But there was no-one,

And I hoped for comforters,

But I did not find any.

²¹And they gave me hemlock for my food,

And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²⁴Pour out your indignation over them,

And may the fury of your anger overtake them.

²⁶For they pursue those whom you have struck,

And they talk to the grief of those you have wounded.

²⁷Add iniquity to their iniquity,

And let them not come into your righteousness.

²⁸May they be blotted out of the book of the living,

And not be written with the righteous.

²⁹But I am afflicted and pained.

May your salvation, O God, lift me up.

³⁰I will praise the name of God in song,

And I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

³¹And may it be pleasing to the Lord

More than an ox or bull-calf,

Which have horns and divide the hoof.

³²The meek will see and be glad

– Those who seek God –

And your heart will live.

³³For the Lord listens to the poor,

And he does not despise those of his in bondage.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him,

And the seas,

And everything that moves in them.

³⁵For God will save Zion,

And he will build the cities of Judah,

And they will dwell there

And take possession of it.

³⁶And the seed of his servants will inherit it,

And those who love his name will dwell in it.

Reference(s) in Chapter 69: v.4 ↔ John 15:25 ● v.9 ↔ John 2:17, Romans 15:3 ● v.21 ↔ John 19:28, John 19:29 ● v.22 ↔ Romans 11:9 ● v.23 ↔ Romans 11:10 ● v.25 ↔ Acts 1:20 ● v.28 ↔ Philippians 4:3, Revelation 3:5, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 17:8, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 20:15, Revelation 21:27.