Psalms 68:7-31

⁷Let 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.

⁸For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; shame has covered my face.

⁹I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

¹⁰For the zeal of thine house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

¹¹And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.

¹²And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

¹³They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.

¹⁴But 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.

¹⁵Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

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;