Psalm 69

¹Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.

²I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

³I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.

⁵O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from thee.

⁶Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts: Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

⁷Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face.

⁸I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother’s children.

⁹For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

¹⁰When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.

¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.

¹²They that sit in the gate talk of me; And I am the song of the drunkards.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness, Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.