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Of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Save me, O God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for the waters have come up to my neck.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>I sink in deep mire,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">where there is no foothold;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I have come into deep waters,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the flood sweeps over me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>I am weary with my crying;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my throat is parched.</span></span><br /><span class="text">My eyes grow dim</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with waiting for my God.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>More in number than the hairs of my head</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">are those who hate me without cause;</span></span><br /><span class="text">many are those who would destroy me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my enemies who accuse me falsely.</span></span><br /><span class="text">What I did not steal</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">must I now restore?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>O God, you know my folly;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Do not let those who hope in you be put to shame because of me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span> of hosts;</span></span><br /><span class="text">do not let those who seek you be dishonored because of me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O God of Israel.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>It is for your sake that I have borne reproach,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that shame has covered my face.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>I have become a stranger to my kindred,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">an alien to my mother’s children.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>It is zeal for your house that has consumed me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>When I humbled my soul with fasting,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17016a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they insulted me for doing so.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>When I made sackcloth my clothing,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I became a byword to them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the drunkards make songs about me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>But as for me, my prayer is to you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">At an acceptable time, O God,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the abundance of your steadfast love, answer me.</span></span><br /><span class="text">With your faithful help </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum mid-line">14</span>rescue me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from sinking in the mire;</span></span><br /><span class="text">let me be delivered from my enemies</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and from the deep waters.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Do not let the flood sweep over me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or the deep swallow me up,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or the Pit close its mouth over me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Answer me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, for your steadfast love is good;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Do not hide your face from your servant,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for I am in distress—make haste to answer me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Draw near to me, redeem me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">set me free because of my enemies.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>You know the insults I receive,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my shame and dishonor;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my foes are all known to you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Insults have broken my heart,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that I am in despair.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I looked for pity, but there was none;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and for comforters, but I found none.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>They gave me poison for food,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Let their table be a trap for them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a snare for their allies.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and make their loins tremble continually.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Pour out your indignation upon them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and let your burning anger overtake them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>May their camp be a desolation;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let no one live in their tents.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>For they persecute those whom you have struck down,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and those whom you have wounded, they attack still more.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17032b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Add guilt to their guilt;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">may they have no acquittal from you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let them not be enrolled among the righteous.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>But I am lowly and in pain;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let your salvation, O God, protect me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>I will praise the name of God with a song;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will magnify him with thanksgiving.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>This will please the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> more than an ox</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or a bull with horns and hoofs.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Let the oppressed see it and be glad;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you who seek God, let your hearts revive.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> hears the needy,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and does not despise his own that are in bonds.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>Let heaven and earth praise him,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the seas and everything that moves in them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>For God will save Zion</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and rebuild the cities of Judah;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and his servants shall live<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17041c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> there and possess it;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>the children of his servants shall inherit it,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and those who love his name shall live in it.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 69:10">Psalm 69:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>I wept, with fasting my soul</i>, or <i>I made my soul mourn with fasting</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 69:26">Psalm 69:26</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>recount the pain of</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 69:35">Psalm 69:35</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Heb <i>and they shall live</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 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