Psalms 68:11-32

¹¹And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

¹²They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.

¹³But I will cry to you, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.

¹⁴Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

¹⁵Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

¹⁶Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me.

¹⁷And turn not away your face from your servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.

¹⁸Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.

¹⁹For you know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before you.

²⁰My 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.

²¹They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

²²Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.

²³Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.

²⁴Pour out your wrath upon them, and let the fury of your anger take hold on them.

²⁵Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:

²⁶Because they persecuted him whom you have struck; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

²⁷Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into your righteousness.

²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.

²⁹I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me.

³⁰I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;

³¹and this shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.

³²Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you° shall live.