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Psalm 69 Smith's Literal Translation
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Save me, O God, for the waters came even to the soul.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I sank in mire of depth, and no standing: I came into depths of waters and the floods overwhelmed me.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I was wearied in my calling, my throat was dried up: mine eyes failed waiting for my God.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Those hating me were many above the hairs of my head: mine enemies destroying me by falsehood were strong: then I will turn back what I plucked not away.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>O God, thou knewest for my folly, and my faults were not hid from thee.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They waiting for thee shall not be ashamed for me: O Lord Jehovah of armies, they shall not be disgraced for me, seeking thee, O God of Israel.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Because for thee I bare reproach: shame covered my face.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I was polluted to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's sons.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For the zeal of thy house devoured me, and the reproaches of those reproaching thee fell upon me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I will weep with fasting of my soul, and it will be for reproaches to me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I will give my clothing sackcloth, and I for a parable to them.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They sitting in the gate will speak against me, and I was but the music of stringed instruments, of strong drink.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I, my prayer is to thee, O Jehovah, a time of acceptance: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy answer me, in the truth of thy salvation.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Deliver me from the mire and I shall not sink: I shall be delivered from those hating me, and from the depths of waters.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The streams of water shall not overflow me, and the depth shall not swallow me down, and the well shall not close upon me her mouth.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Answer me, O Jehovah, for good is thy mercy: according to the multitude of thy compassions turn to me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And thou wilt not hide thy face from thy servant; for straits are to me: hasten to answer me.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Draw near to my soul, redeem it: ransom me on account of mine enemies.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Thou knewest my reproach and my shame, and my disgrace: all mine adversaries are before thee.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Reproach broke my heart, and I shall be ill at ease: and I shall hope for comforting, and none; and for those consoling, and I found not.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they will give my food poison, and for my thirst they will give me vinegar to drink.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Their table shall be before them for a snare, for a retribution, for a cause of ruin.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Their eyes shall be darkened from seeing, and cause their loins to waver always.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Pour out upon them thy wrath, and the burning of thins anger shall overtake then).<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Their fortress shall be desolated, and in their tents there shall none be dwelling.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For whom thou didst strike they pursued; and they will relate to the pain of thy wounded.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Thou wilt give iniquity to their iniquity, and they shall not come into thy justice.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They shall be wiped off from the book of the living, and with the just they shall not be written.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And I am poor and dejected: and thy salvation, O God, shall set me up on high.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with praise.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And it shall be good to Jehovah above an ox, a bullock shooting out horns and hoofs,<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The poor saw, they shall be glad: and seeking Jehovah your heart shall live.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>For Jehovah heard to the needy, and he despised not his hound.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The heavens shall praise him, and the earth, the sea, and every creeping thing in it.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>For God will save Zion, and he will build the cities of Judah, and they shall dwell there and inherit it.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And the seed of his servants shall inherit it, and they loving his name shall dwell in it.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; 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