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Chapter 69 | |
1 | Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.  | 
2 | I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.  | 
3 | I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.  | 
 
4 | They that hate me without a cause are more than the 
hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully,
are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
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5 | O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.  | 
6 | Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.  | 
7 | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.  | 
8 | I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.  | 
9 | For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; 
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 the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
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10 | When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.  | 
11 | I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.  | 
12 | They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.  | 
13 | But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.  | 
14 | Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.  | 
15 | Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.  | 
16 | Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.  | 
17 | And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.  |  
18 | Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.  | 
 
19 | Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my 
1dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
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20 | Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.  | 
21 | They gave me also 1gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me 
vinegar to drink.
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Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their 
loins continually to shake.
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24 | Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.  | 
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their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
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26 | For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.  |  
27 | Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.  | 
28 | Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.  | 
 
29 | But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.  | 
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I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.  | 
31 | This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.  | 
32 | The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.  | 
33 | For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.  | 
 
34 | Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.  | 
35 | For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.  | 
 
36 | The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.  | 
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