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# Chapter 69
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1 Save me, O God!
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For the waters have come up to my neck.
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2 I sink in deep mire,
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Where there is no standing;
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I have come into deep waters,
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Where the floods overflow me.
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3 I am weary with my crying;
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My throat is dry;
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My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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4 Those who hate me without a cause
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Are more than the hairs of my head;
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They are mighty who would destroy me,
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Being my enemies wrongfully;
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Though I have stolen nothing,
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I still must restore it.
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5 O God, You know my foolishness;
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And my sins are not hidden from You.
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6 Let not those who wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me;
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Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
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7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
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Shame has covered my face.
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8 I have become a stranger to my brothers,
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And an alien to my mother’s children;
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9 Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
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And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
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10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,
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That became my reproach.
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11 I also made sackcloth my garment;
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I became a byword to them.
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12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me,
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And I am the song of the drunkards.
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13 But as for me, my prayer is to You,
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O Lord, in the acceptable time;
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O God, in the multitude of Your mercy,
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Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.
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14 Deliver me out of the mire,
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And let me not sink;
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Let me be delivered from those who hate me,
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And out of the deep waters.
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15 Let not the floodwater overflow me,
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Nor let the deep swallow me up;
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And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.
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16 Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;
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Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
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17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant,
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For I am in trouble;
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Hear me speedily.
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18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it;
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Deliver me because of my enemies.
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19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;
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My adversaries are all before You.
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20 Reproach has broken my heart,
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And I am full of heaviness;
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I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none;
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And for comforters, but I found none.
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21 They also gave me gall for my food,
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And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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22 Let their table become a snare before them,
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And their well-being a trap.
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23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see;
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And make their loins shake continually.
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24 Pour out Your indignation upon them,
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And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
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25 Let their dwelling place be desolate;
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Let no one live in their tents.
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26 For they persecute the ones You have struck,
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And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.
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27 Add iniquity to their iniquity,
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And let them not come into Your righteousness.
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28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
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And not be written with the righteous.
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29 But I am poor and sorrowful;
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Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
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30 I will praise the name of God with a song,
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And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
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31 This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bull,
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Which has horns and hooves.
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32 The humble shall see this and be glad;
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And you who seek God, your hearts shall live.
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33 For the Lord hears the poor,
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And does not despise His prisoners.
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34 Let heaven and earth praise Him,
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The seas and everything that moves in them.
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35 For God will save Zion
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And build the cities of Judah,
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That they may dwell there and possess it.
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36 Also, the descendants of His servants shall inherit it,
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And those who love His name shall dwell in it. |