Psalms 69

1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!Cross-references: Job 22:11 · Ps 18:4 · Ps 32:6 · Ps 42:7 · Ps 45:1 · Ps 60:1 · +9 more

2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.Cross-references: Gen 7:17 · Ps 32:6 · Ps 40:2 · Ps 88:6 · Jer 38:6 · Jer 38:22 · +3 more

3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.Cross-references: Deut 28:32 · Job 11:20 · Job 16:16 · Ps 6:6 · Ps 13:1 · Ps 22:2 · +10 more

4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.Cross-references: Ps 7:3 · Ps 35:11 · Ps 35:19 · Ps 38:19 · Ps 40:12 · Ps 59:3 · +7 more

5God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.Cross-references: Ps 17:3 · Ps 19:12 · Ps 38:5 · Ps 38:9 · Ps 44:20 · Jer 16:17

6Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.Cross-references: 2Sam 23:3 · Ps 7:7 · Ps 25:3 · Ps 35:26 · Ps 72:18 · Isa 49:23 · +4 more

7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.Cross-references: Ps 22:6 · Ps 44:15 · Ps 44:22 · Isa 50:6 · Isa 53:3 · Jer 15:15 · +7 more

8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:28 · Job 19:13 · Ps 31:11 · Ps 38:11 · Isa 53:3 · Mic 7:5 · +7 more

9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.Cross-references: 1Ki 19:10 · 1Chr 15:27 · 1Chr 29:3 · Ps 89:41 · Ps 89:50 · Ps 119:139 · +3 more

10When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.Cross-references: Ps 35:13 · Ps 102:8 · Ps 109:24 · Luke 7:33

11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.Cross-references: Deut 28:37 · 1Ki 9:7 · Job 17:6 · Ps 35:13 · Ps 44:13 · Isa 20:2 · +4 more

12Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.Cross-references: Gen 19:1 · Deut 16:18 · Job 30:8 · Ps 35:15 · Dan 5:2 · Dan 5:23 · +7 more

13But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.Cross-references: Gen 24:27 · 1Sam 25:8 · Esth 5:2 · Esth 5:6 · Esth 7:2 · Ps 32:6 · +17 more

14Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.Cross-references: Ps 25:18 · Ps 35:19 · Ps 40:1 · Ps 42:2 · Ps 42:7 · Ps 69:1 · +12 more

15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.Cross-references: Num 16:33 · Ps 16:10 · Ps 88:4 · Ps 124:4 · Isa 43:1 · Jonah 2:2 · +4 more

16Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.Cross-references: Ps 25:16 · Ps 26:11 · Ps 36:7 · Ps 51:1 · Ps 63:3 · Ps 69:13 · +5 more

17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!Cross-references: Job 7:21 · Ps 13:1 · Ps 22:24 · Ps 27:9 · Ps 40:13 · Ps 44:24 · +7 more

18Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.Cross-references: Deut 32:27 · Josh 7:9 · Job 6:23 · Ps 10:1 · Ps 22:1 · Ps 22:19 · +4 more

19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.Cross-references: Ps 2:2 · Ps 22:6 · Ps 38:9 · Ps 69:7 · Isa 53:3 · John 8:49 · +2 more

20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.Cross-references: Job 16:2 · Job 19:21 · Ps 42:6 · Ps 42:10 · Ps 123:4 · Ps 142:4 · +9 more

21They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.Cross-references: Deut 29:18 · Jer 8:14 · Jer 9:15 · Jer 23:15 · Matt 27:34 · Matt 27:48 · +4 more

22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.Cross-references: Prov 1:32 · Isa 8:14 · Mal 2:2 · Rom 11:8 · 1Thess 5:3 · 1Pet 2:8

23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.Cross-references: Deut 28:65 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 21:3 · Isa 29:9 · Jer 30:6 · Dan 5:6 · +6 more

24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.Cross-references: Ex 15:15 · Lev 26:14 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:18 · Deut 31:17 · Deut 32:20 · +8 more

25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:8 · Isa 5:1 · Isa 6:11 · Jer 7:12 · Matt 23:38 · Matt 24:1 · +2 more

26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.Cross-references: 2Chr 28:9 · Job 19:21 · Ps 109:16 · Isa 53:4 · Isa 53:10 · Zech 1:15 · +3 more

27Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.Cross-references: Ex 8:15 · Ex 8:32 · Ex 9:12 · Lev 26:39 · Neh 4:5 · Ps 24:5 · +15 more

28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.Cross-references: Ex 32:32 · Isa 4:3 · Isa 65:16 · Ezek 13:9 · Hos 1:9 · Luke 10:20 · +6 more

29But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.Cross-references: Ps 18:48 · Ps 20:1 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 40:17 · Ps 59:1 · Ps 70:5 · +9 more

30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.Cross-references: Ps 28:7 · Ps 34:3 · Ps 40:1 · Ps 50:14 · Ps 118:21 · Ps 118:28

31It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.Cross-references: Ps 50:13 · Ps 50:23 · Hos 14:2 · Eph 5:19 · Heb 13:15 · 1Pet 2:5

32The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.Cross-references: Ps 22:26 · Ps 22:29 · Ps 25:9 · Ps 34:2 · Isa 55:6 · Isa 61:1 · +2 more

33For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.Cross-references: Ps 10:17 · Ps 12:5 · Ps 34:6 · Ps 68:6 · Ps 72:12 · Ps 102:17 · +10 more

34Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!Cross-references: Gen 1:20 · Ps 96:11 · Ps 98:7 · Ps 148:1 · Ps 150:6 · Isa 44:22 · +3 more

35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.Cross-references: Ps 48:11 · Ps 51:18 · Ps 102:13 · Ps 102:16 · Ps 147:12 · Isa 14:32 · +6 more

36The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.Cross-references: Ps 37:29 · Ps 90:16 · Ps 91:14 · Ps 102:28 · Isa 44:3 · Isa 61:9 · +6 more