Psalm 69

Christian Standard Bible

⁵ God, you know my foolishness,
and my guilty acts are not hidden from you.^(G)
6 Do not let those who put their hope in you
be disgraced because of me,
Lord God of Armies;
do not let those who seek you
be humiliated because of me,
God of Israel.^(H)
7 For I have endured insults because of you,
and shame has covered my face.^(I)
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons^(J)
9 because zeal for your house has consumed me,^(K)
and the insults of those who insult you
have fallen on me.^(L)
10 I mourned and fasted,
but it brought me insults.^(M)
11 I wore sackcloth as my clothing,
and I was a joke to them.
¹² Those who sit at the city gate talk about me,
and drunkards make up songs about me.^(N)

¹³ But as for me, Lord,
my prayer to you is for a time of favor.
In your abundant, faithful love, God,
answer me with your sure salvation.^(O)
14 Rescue me from the miry mud; don’t let me sink.
Let me be rescued from those who hate me
and from the deep water.^(P)
15 Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over me
or the deep swallow me up;
don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.^(Q)
16 Answer me, Lord,
for your faithful love is good.
In keeping with your abundant compassion,
turn to me.^(R)
17 Don’t hide your face from your servant,
for I am in distress.
Answer me quickly!^(S)
18 Come near to me and redeem me;
ransom me because of my enemies.^(T)

¹⁹ You know the insults I endure—
my shame and disgrace.
You are aware of all my adversaries.^(U)
20 Insults have broken my heart,
and I am in despair.
I waited for sympathy,
but there was none;
for comforters, but found no one.^(V)
21 Instead, they gave me gall for my food,
and for my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.^(W)

²² Let their table set before them be a snare,
and let it be a trap for their allies.^(X)
23 Let their eyes grow too dim to see,
and let their hips continually quake.^(Y)
24 Pour out your rage on them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.^(Z)
25 Make their fortification desolate;
may no one live in their tents.^(AA)
26 For they persecute the one you struck
and talk about the pain of those you wounded.^(AB)
27 Charge them with crime on top of crime;
do not let them share in your righteousness.^(AC)
28 Let them be erased from the book of life
and not be recorded with the righteous.^(AD)

²⁹ But as for me—poor and in pain—
let your salvation protect me, God.^(AE)
30 I will praise God’s name with song
and exalt him with thanksgiving.^(AF)
31 That will please the Lord more than an ox,
more than a bull with horns and hooves.^(AG)
32 The humble will see it and rejoice.
You who seek God, take heart!^(AH)
33 For the Lord listens to the needy
and does not despise
his own who are prisoners.^(AI)

³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves in them,^(AJ)
35 for God will save Zion
and build up^[a] the cities of Judah.
They will live there and possess it.^(AK)
36 The descendants of his servants will inherit it,
and those who love his name will live in it.^(AL)