en_cjb - Psa 69 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ [(0)] For the leader. Set to “Lilies.” By David:

² [(1)] Save me, God! For the water threatens my life.

³ [(2)] I am sinking down in the mud, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep water; the flood is sweeping over me.

⁴ [(3)] I am exhausted from crying, my throat is dry and sore, my eyes are worn out with looking for my God.

⁵ [(4)] Those who hate me for no reason outnumber the hairs on my head. My persecutors are powerful, my enemies accuse me falsely. Am I expected to return things I didn’t steal?

⁶ [(5)] God, you know how foolish I am; my guilt is not hidden from you.

⁷ [(6)] Let those who put their hope in you, Adonai ELOHIM-Tzva’ot, not be put to shame through me; let those who are seeking you, God of Isra’el, not be disgraced through me.

⁸ [(7)] For your sake I suffer insults, shame covers my face.

⁹ [(8)] I am estranged from my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children,

¹⁰ [(9)] because zeal for your house is eating me up, and on me are falling the insults of those insulting you.

¹¹ [(10)] I weep bitterly, and I fast, but that too occasions insults.

¹² [(11)] I clothe myself with sackcloth and become an object of scorn,

¹³ [(12)] the gossip of those sitting by the town gate, the theme of drunkards’ songs.

¹⁴ [(13)] As for me, ADONAI, let my prayer to you come at an acceptable time; In your great grace, God, answer me with the truth of your salvation.

¹⁵ [(14)] Rescue me from the mud! Don’t let me sink! Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water.

¹⁶ [(15)] Don’t let the floodwaters overwhelm me, don’t let the deep swallow me up, don’t let the pit close its mouth over me.

¹⁷ [(16)] Answer me, ADONAI, for your grace is good; in your great mercy, turn to me.

¹⁸ [(17)] Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; answer me quickly.

¹⁹ [(18)] Come near to me, and redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies.

²⁰ [(19)] You know how I am insulted, shamed and disgraced; before you stand all my foes.

²¹ [(20)] Insults have broken my heart to the point that I could die. I hoped that someone would show compassion, but nobody did; and that there would be comforters, but I found none.

²² [(21)] They put poison in my food; in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

²³ [(22)] Let their dining table before them become a snare; when they are at peace, let it become a trap;

²⁴ [(23)] let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see, and let their bodies always be stumbling.

²⁵ [(24)] Pour out your fury on them, let your fierce anger overtake them.

²⁶ [(25)] Let the place where they live be desolate, with no one to live in their tents,

²⁷ [(26)] for persecuting someone you had already stricken, for adding to the pain of those you wounded.

²⁸ [(27)] Add guilt to their guilt, don’t let them enter your righteousness.

²⁹ [(28)] Erase them from the book of life, let them not be written with the righteous.

³⁰ [(29)] Meanwhile, I am afflicted and hurting; God, let your saving power raise me up.

³¹ [(30)] I will praise God’s name with a song and extol him with thanksgiving.

³² [(31)] This will please ADONAI more than a bull, with its horns and hoofs.

³³ [(32)] The afflicted will see it and rejoice; you seeking after God, let your heart revive.

³⁴ [(33)] For ADONAI pays attention to the needy and doesn’t scorn his captive people.

³⁵ [(34)] Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and whatever moves in them.

³⁶ [(35)] For God will save Tziyon, he will build the cities of Y’hudah. [His people] will settle there and possess it.

³⁷ [(36)] The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will live there.