engLXXup: Psalms 68

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 [1] For the end, a Psalm of David, for alternate strains.

[2] Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.

[3] I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing:

I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

[4] I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse;

Mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

[5] They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head:

My enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened:

Then I restored that which I took not away.

[6] O God, thou knowest my foolishness;

And my transgressions are not hidden from thee.

[7] Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek thee, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.

[8] For I have suffered reproach for thy sake;

Shame has covered my face.

[9] I became strange to my brethren,

And a stranger to my mother’s children.

[10] For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up;

And the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

[11] And I bowed down my soul with fasting,

And that was made my reproach.

[12] And I put on sackcloth for my covering;

And I became a proverb to them.

[13] They that sit in the gate talked against me,

And they that drank wine sang against me.

[14] But I will cry to thee, O Lord, in my prayer;

O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of thy mercy hear me,

In the truth of thy salvation.

[15] Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it:

Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

[16] Let not the waterflood drown me,

Nor let the deep swallow me up;

Neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

[17] Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good:

According to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me.

[18] And turn not away thy face from thy servant;

For I am afflicted: hear me speedily.

[19] Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it:

Deliver me because of mine enemies.

[20] For thou knowest my reproach,

And my shame, and my confusion;

All that afflict me are before thee.

[21] My soul has waited for reproach and misery;

And I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none;

And for one to comfort me, but I found none.

[22] They gave me also gall for my food,

And made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

[23] Let their table before them be for a snare,

And for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.

[24] Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see;

And bow down their back continually.

[25] Pour out thy wrath upon them,

And let the fury of thine anger take hold on them.

[26] Let their habitation be made desolate;

And let there be no inhabitant in their tents:

[27] Because they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten;

And they have added to the grief of my wounds.

[28] Add iniquity to their iniquity;

And let them not come into thy righteousness.

[29] Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,

And let them not be written with the righteous.

[30] I am poor and sorrowful;

But the salvation of thy countenance has helped me.

[31] I will praise the name of my God with a song,

I will magnify him with praise;

[32] And this shall please God more than a young calf

Having horns and hoofs.

[33] Let the poor see and rejoice;

Seek the Lord diligently, and ye shall live.

[34] For the Lord hears the poor,

And does not set at nought his fettered ones.

[35] Let the heavens and the earth praise him,

The sea, and all things moving in them.

[36] For God will save Zion,

And the cities of Judea shall be built;

And men shall dwell there, and inherit it.

[37] And the seed of his servants shall possess it,

And they that love his name shall dwell therein.

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