Psalm 69:1-Psalm 70:1 - A Plea For Rescue

¹ For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” Davidic.Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.
² I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep waters,
and a flood sweeps over me.
³ I am weary from my crying;
my throat is parched.
My eyes fail, looking for my God.
⁴ Those who hate me without cause
are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me,
are powerful.
Though I did not steal, I must repay.

⁵ God, You know my foolishness,
and my guilty acts are not hidden from You.
⁶ Do not let those who put their hope in You
be disgraced because of me,
Lord God of Hosts;
do not let those who seek You
be humiliated because of me,
God of Israel.
⁷ For I have endured insults because of You,
and shame has covered my face.
⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons
⁹ because zeal for Your house has consumed me,
and the insults of those who insult You
have fallen on me.
¹⁰ I mourned and fasted,
but it brought me insults.
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.

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.
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 waters.
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.
¹⁶ Answer me, Lord,
for Your faithful love is good;
in keeping with Your great compassion,
turn to me.
¹⁷ Don’t hide Your face from Your servant,
for I am in distress.
Answer me quickly!
¹⁸ Draw near to me and redeem me;
ransom me because of my enemies.

¹⁹ You know the insults I endure—
my shame and disgrace.
You are aware of all my adversaries.
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.
²¹ Instead, they gave me gall for my food,
and for my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.

²² Let their table set before them be a snare,
and let it be a trap for their allies.
²³ Let their eyes grow too dim to see,
and let their loins continually shake.
²⁴ Pour out Your rage on them,
and let Your burning anger overtake them.
²⁵ Make their fortification desolate;
may no one live in their tents.
²⁶ For they persecute the one You struck
and talk about the pain of those You wounded.
²⁷ Add guilt to their guilt;
do not let them share in Your righteousness.
²⁸ Let them be erased from the book of life
and not be recorded with the righteous.

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

³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise Him,
the seas and everything that moves in them,
³⁵ for God will save Zion
and build up the cities of Judah.
They will live there and possess it.
³⁶ The descendants of His servants will inherit it,
and those who love His name will live in it.

¹ For the choir director. Davidic. To bring remembrance.God, deliver me.
Hurry to help me, Lord!