Psalm 69

¹Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.

²SAVE me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.

³I stick fast in the mire of the deep: and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

⁴I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

⁵They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

⁶O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:

⁷Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.

⁸Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

⁹I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

¹⁰For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

¹¹And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.

¹²And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.

¹³They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.

¹⁴But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.