Psalms 69:10-34

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.

¹³Yet will I address my prayer to thee, O LORD! May it be in an acceptable time according to thy great goodness! Hear, O God! and afford me thy sure help!

¹⁴Save me from the mire, and let me not sink; May I be delivered from my enemies,—from the deep waters!

¹⁵Let not the water-flood overflow me; Let not the deep swallow me up, And let not the pit close her mouth upon me!

¹⁶Hear me, O LORD! since great is thy loving-kindness; According to the abundance of thy tender mercies look upon me!

¹⁷Hide not thy face from thy servant; I am greatly distressed, O make haste to mine aid!

¹⁸Draw near to me, and redeem my life; Deliver me because of my enemies!

¹⁹Thou knowest my reproach, and dishonor, and shame; All my adversaries are in thy view!

²⁰Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; I look for pity, but there is none; For comforters, but find none.

²¹For my food they give me gall, And in my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

²²May their table be to them a snare; May it be a trap to them, while they are at ease!

²³May their eyes be darkened, that they may not see; And cause their loins continually to shake!

²⁴Pour out upon them thine indignation, And may the heat of thine anger overtake them!

²⁵Let their habitation be desolate, And let none dwell in their tents!

²⁶For they persecute those whom thou hast smitten, And talk of the pain of those whom thou hast wounded.

²⁷Add iniquity to their iniquity, And let them never come into thy favor!

²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; Let not their names be written with the righteous!

²⁹But I am poor, and sorrowful: May thine aid, O God! set me on high!

³⁰Then I will praise the name of God in a song; I will give glory to him with thanksgiving.

³¹More pleasing shall this be to the LORD Than a full-horned and full-hoofed bullock.

³²The afflicted shall see, and rejoice; The hearts of them that fear God shall be revived.

³³For the LORD heareth the poor, And despiseth not his people in their bonds.

³⁴Let the heaven and the earth praise him; The sea, and all that move therein!