Psalms 68:16-31

¹⁶Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

¹⁷Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good: according to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me.

¹⁸And turn not away thy face from thy servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.

¹⁹Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

²⁰For thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before thee.

²¹My 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.

²²They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

²³Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompence, and for a stumbling-block.

²⁴Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.

²⁵Pour out thy wrath upon them, and let the fury of thine anger take hold on them.

²⁶Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:

²⁷because they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

²⁸Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into thy righteousness.

²⁹Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.

³⁰I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of thy countenance has helped me.

³¹I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;