# Psalm 69 (New King James Version)
An Urgent Plea for Help in Trouble

##### Chapter 69
###### 1 Save me, O God!  
For the waters have come up to _my_ neck.  

###### 2 I sink in deep mire,  
Where _there is_ no standing;  
I have come into deep waters,  
Where the floods overflow me.  

###### 3 I am weary with my crying;  
My throat is dry;  
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

###### 4 Those who hate me without a cause  
Are more than the hairs of my head;  
They are mighty who would destroy me,  
_Being_ my enemies wrongfully;  
Though I have stolen nothing,  
I _still_ must restore _it._

###### 5 O God, You know my foolishness;  
And my sins are not hidden from You.  

###### 6 Let not those who wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me;  
Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.  

###### 7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;  
Shame has covered my face.  

###### 8 I have become a stranger to my brothers,  
And an alien to my mother's children;  

###### 9 Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,  
And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.  

###### 10 When I wept _and chastened_ my soul with fasting,  
That became my reproach.  

###### 11 I also made sackcloth my garment;  
I became a byword to them.  

###### 12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me,  
And I _am_ the song of the drunkards.

###### 13 But as for me, my prayer _is_ to You,  
O Lord, _in_ the acceptable time;  
O God, in the multitude of Your mercy,  
Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.  

###### 14 Deliver me out of the mire,  
And let me not sink;  
Let me be delivered from those who hate me,  
And out of the deep waters.  

###### 15 Let not the floodwater overflow me,  
Nor let the deep swallow me up;  
And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

###### 16 Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness _is_ good;  
Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.  

###### 17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant,  
For I am in trouble;  
Hear me speedily.  

###### 18 Draw near to my soul, _and_ redeem it;  
Deliver me because of my enemies.

###### 19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;  
My adversaries _are_ all before You.  

###### 20 Reproach has broken my heart,  
And I am full of heaviness;  
I looked _for someone_ to take pity, but _there was_ none;  
And for comforters, but I found none.  

###### 21 They also gave me gall for my food,  
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

###### 22 Let their table become a snare before them,  
And their well-being a trap.  

###### 23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see;  
And make their loins shake continually.  

###### 24 Pour out Your indignation upon them,  
And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.  

###### 25 Let their dwelling place be desolate;  
Let no one live in their tents.  

###### 26 For they persecute the _ones_ You have struck,  
And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.  

###### 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity,  
And let them not come into Your 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 Your 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.  

###### 31 _This_ also shall please the Lord better than an ox _or_ bull,  
Which has horns and hooves.  

###### 32 The humble shall see _this and_ be glad;  
And you who seek God, your hearts shall live.  

###### 33 For the Lord hears the poor,  
And does not despise His prisoners.

###### 34 Let heaven and earth praise Him,  
The seas and everything that moves in them.  

###### 35 For God will save Zion  
And build the cities of Judah,  
That they may dwell there and possess it.  

###### 36 Also, the descendants of His servants shall inherit it,  
And those who love His name shall dwell in it.