Psalms 68
1Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul. 1
2I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me. 1
3I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; my eyes have failed by my waiting on my God. 1
4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I + 68:4 Or, paid for, or, made up for. restored that which I took not away. 1
5O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you. 1
6Let not them that wait on you, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek you, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel. 1
7For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face. 1
8I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children. 1
9+ 68:9 John 2:17; Rom 15:3 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me. 1
10And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach. 1
11And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them. 1
12They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me. 1
13But I will cry to you, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation. 1
14Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters. 1
15Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me. 1
16Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me. 1
17And turn not away your face from your + 68:17 Or, son. servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily. 1
18Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies. 1
19For you know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before you. 1
20My 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. 1
21They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst. 1
22+ 68:22 Rom 11:9-10 Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block. 1
23Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually. 1
24Pour out your wrath upon them, and let the fury of your anger take hold on them. 1
25+ 68:25 Acts 1:20 Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents: 1
26Because they persecuted him whom you have struck; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. 1
27Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into your righteousness. 1
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous. 1
29I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me. 1
30I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise; 1
31and this shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs. 1
32Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you⌃ shall live. 1
33For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nothing his fettered ones. 1
34Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them. 1
35For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and men shall dwell there, and inherit it. 1
36And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.