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God, thou knowest my symplenesse, and my fautes are not hyd from the.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let not them that trust in the (o LORDE God of hoostes) be ashamed for my cause: let not those yt seke the, be confounded thorow me, o God of Israel.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And why? for thy sake do I suffre reprofe, shame couereth my face.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I am become a straunger vnto my brethren, and an aleaunt vnto my mothers children.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For the zele of thine house hath euen eaten me, and the rebukes of them that rebuked the, is fallen vpon me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I wepte and chastened my self wt fastinge, and that was turned to my reprofe.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I put on a sackecloth, and therfore they iested vpon me.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They that satt in the gate, spake agaynst me, and the dronckardes made songes vpon me.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But LORDE, I made my prayer vnto the in an acceptable tyme: Heare me (o God) with thy greate mercy & sure helpe.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Take me out of the myre, yt I syncke not: Oh let me be delyuered fro the yt hate me, & out of ye depe waters.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Lest ye water floude drowne me, that the depe swalowe me not vp, & yt the pitte shut not hir mouth vpon me.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Heare me (o LORDE) for thy louynge kyndnesse is confortable: turne the vnto me acordinge vnto yi greate mercy.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Hyde not thy face from thy seruaut, for I am in trouble: O haist ye to helpe me.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Drawe nye vnto my soule, and saue it: Oh delyuer me because of myne enemies.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Thou knowest my reprofe, my shame & my dishonor: my aduersaries are all in thy sight.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The rebuke breaketh my hert, & maketh me heuy: I loke for some to haue pitie vpon me, but there is no man: & for some to coforte me, but I fynde none.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They gaue me gall to eate, & whe I was thurstie, they gaue me vyneger to drynke.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Let their table be made a snare to take them selues withall, an occasion to fall & a rewarde vnto them.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Let their eyes be blynded, that they se not: & euer bowe downe their backes.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Poure out thy indignacion vpon them, & let thy wrothfull displeasure take holde of them.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let their habitacion be voyde, & no man to dwell in their tentes.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For they persecute him whom thou hast smytten, & besyde thy woundes they haue geuen him moo.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Let them fall fro one wickednesse to another, & not come into thy rightuousnesse.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Let the be wyped out of ye boke of the lyuinge, & not be written amonge the rightuous.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>As for me, I am poore & in heuynesse, let thy helpe defende me, o God.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>That I maye prayse ye name of God with a songe, & magnifie it with thankesgeuynge.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>This shal please the LORDE better then a bullocke, that hath hornes & hoffes.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>O considre this & be glad (ye that be in aduersite) seke after God, & yor soule shal lyue.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>For the LORDE heareth the poore, & despyset not his presoners.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Let heauen & earth praise him, the see & all that moueth therin.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>For God wil saue Sion, & buylde the cities of Iuda, that men maye dwell there, & haue the in possession.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>The sede of his seruauntes shal iheret it, & they that loue his name, shal dwell therin.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Coverdale Bible of 1535<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a 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