Thematic Bible

Psalm 69:1

Save me, O God, for the waters have come in to my soul.

Psalm 69:2

I sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalm 69:4

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. That which I took not away I have to restore.

Psalm 69:5

O God, thou know my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from thee.

Psalm 69:6

Let not those who wait for thee be put to shame through me, O lord LORD of hosts. Let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

Psalm 69:7

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach, shame has covered my face.

Psalm 69:8

I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's sons.

Psalm 69:9

For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach thee have fallen upon me.

Psalm 69:10

When I wept in my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

Psalm 69:11

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Psalm 69:12

Those who sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkards.

Psalm 69:13

But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD. In an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of thy loving kindness, answer me in the truth of thy salvation.

Psalm 69:14

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.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 69:15

Let not the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep shallow me up. And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

Psalm 69:16

Answer me, O LORD, for thy loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou to me,

Psalm 69:17

and hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 69:18

Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 69:19

Thou know my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before thee.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 69:21

They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 69:22

Let their table before them become a snare, and when they are in peace, a trap, {and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them (LXX/NT)}.

Psalm 69:23

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and {bow down their back (LXX/NT)} continually.

Psalm 69:24

Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

Psalm 69:25

Let their habitation be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents.

Psalm 69:26

For they persecute him whom thou have smitten, and they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou have wounded.

Psalm 69:27

Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.

Psalm 69:28

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Psalm 69:29

But I am poor and sorrowful. Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Psalm 69:30

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving,

Psalm 69:31

and it will please LORD better than an ox, [or] a bullock that has horns and hoofs.

Psalm 69:32

The meek have seen it, and are glad. Ye who seek after God, let your heart live.

Psalm 69:33

For LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his prisoners.

Psalm 69:34

Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and everything that moves therein.

Psalm 69:35

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 69:36

The seed also of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell therein.