Psalms 69:9-35

⁹For the zeal of your house has eaten me up, and the rebukes of those who rebuke you have fallen on me.

¹⁰When I wept and did not eat food, they insulted me.

¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became the object of a proverb to them.

¹²Those who sit in the city gate talk about me; I am a song of drunkards.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, at a time that you will accept; answer me in the trustworthiness of your salvation.

¹⁴Pull me out of the mire, and do not let me sink; let me be taken away from those who hate me and rescued out of the deep waters.

¹⁵Do not let the floods of water overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Do not let the pit shut its mouth on me.

¹⁶Answer me, Yahweh, for your covenant faithfulness is good; because your mercies for me are many, turn to me.

¹⁷Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress; answer me quickly.

¹⁸Come to me and redeem me. Because of my enemies, ransom me.

¹⁹You know my rebuke, my shame, and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before you.

²⁰Rebuke has broken my heart; I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; I looked for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me poison for my food; in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table before them become a snare; when they think they are in safety, let it become a trap.

²³Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see; and always make their loins shake.

²⁴Pour out your indignation on them, and let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

²⁵Let their place be a desolation; let no one live in their tents.

²⁶For they persecuted the one you struck down. They repeated the account of the pain of those you have wounded.

²⁷Accuse them of having committed iniquity after iniquity; do not let them come into your righteous victory.

²⁸Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life and not be written down along with the righteous.

²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful; let your salvation, God, set me up on high.

³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song and will exalt him with thanksgiving.

³¹That will please Yahweh better than an ox or a bull that has horns and hooves.

³²The meek have seen it and are glad; you who seek after God, let your hearts live.

³³For Yahweh hears the needy and does not despise his prisoners.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

³⁵For God will save Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; the people will live there and have it as a possession.