Thematic Bible
Psalm 69:1 (show verse)
Save me, O God, because waters have come up to [my] neck.
Psalm 69:2 (show verse)
I sink in [the] mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and [the] torrent floods over me.
Psalm 69:3 (show verse)
I am weary with my calling [out]; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted [in my] waiting for my God.
Psalm 69:4 (show verse)
More numerous than the hairs of my head are [those] hating me without a cause. [Those who are] destroying me--my enemies wrongfully-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.
Psalm 69:5 (show verse)
O God, {you yourself know} my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.
Psalm 69:6 (show verse)
Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh [of] hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.
Psalm 69:7 (show verse)
Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.
Psalm 69:8 (show verse)
I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons,
Psalm 69:9 (show verse)
because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.
Psalm 69:10 (show verse)
When I wept in the fasting of my soul, it became reproaches for me.
Psalm 69:11 (show verse)
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became for them a byword.
Psalm 69:12 (show verse)
Those sitting at [the] gate talk about me [as] also [the] songs of [the] drunkards.
Psalm 69:13 (show verse)
But as for me, my prayer [is] to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love. Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.
Psalm 69:14 (show verse)
Deliver me from [the] mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from [those who] hate me and from [the] watery depths.
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Psalm 69:15 (show verse)
Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or [the] deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me.
Psalm 69:16 (show verse)
Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love [is] good; according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,
Psalm 69:17 (show verse)
and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.
No Themes for this verse.
Psalm 69:18 (show verse)
Draw near to my soul; redeem it. Because of my enemies, ransom me.
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Psalm 69:19 (show verse)
You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. {Fully known} to you are all my adversaries.
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Psalm 69:20 (show verse)
Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalm 69:21 (show verse)
They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalm 69:22 (show verse)
Let their table before them be a trap, and their [times of] peace a snare.
Psalm 69:23 (show verse)
Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see, and make their loins continually tremble.
Psalm 69:24 (show verse)
Pour out your indignation on them, and let your burning anger overtake them.
Psalm 69:25 (show verse)
Let their camp be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents,
Psalm 69:26 (show verse)
because they persecute [those] whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of [those] you have wounded.
Psalm 69:27 (show verse)
{Add guilt on top of their guilt}, and do not let them {be acquitted}.
Psalm 69:28 (show verse)
Let them be blotted out of [the] book of [the] living, and let them not be recorded with [the] righteous.
Psalm 69:29 (show verse)
But as for me, [though] I [am] afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect me, O God.
Psalm 69:30 (show verse)
I will praise the name of God in song, and magnify him with thanksgiving.
Psalm 69:31 (show verse)
For Yahweh it will be better than an ox [or] bull, horned [and] hoofed.
Psalm 69:32 (show verse)
[The] afflicted will see [and] rejoice. O God seekers, let your heart revive,
Psalm 69:33 (show verse)
because Yahweh hears [the] needy and does not despise his [own who are] prisoners.
Psalm 69:34 (show verse)
Let heavens and earth praise him, [the] seas and all that moves in them,
Psalm 69:35 (show verse)
because God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.
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Psalm 69:36 (show verse)
And the offspring of his servants will inherit it, and [those who] love his name will abide in it.