Psalms 69:1-12

¹“For the leader of the music. Upon the Shoshannim. A psalm of David.” Save me, O God! For the waters press in to my very life!

²I sink in deep mire, where is no standing; I have come into deep waters, and the waves flow over me.

³I am weary with crying; my throat is parched; Mine eyes are wasted, while I wait for my God.

⁴More numerous than the hairs of my head are they who hate me without reason; Mighty are they who seek to destroy me, being my enemies without cause: I must restore what I took not away.

⁵O God! thou knowest my offences, And my sins are not hidden from thee!

⁶Let not them that trust in thee through me be put to shame, O Lord Jehovah, God of hosts! Let not them that seek thee through me be confounded, O God of Israel!

⁷For on account of thee do I suffer reproach, And shame covereth my face!

⁸I am become a stranger to my brothers; Yea, an alien to my mother's sons.

⁹For zeal for thy house consumeth me, And the reproaches of them that reproach thee fall upon me.

¹⁰When I weep and fast, That is made my reproach;

¹¹When I clothe myself in sackcloth, Then I become their by-word.

¹²They who sit in the gate speak against me, And I am become the song of drunkards.