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Psalm 69 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:2)</font> I 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.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:3)</font> I am weary <i>of</i> crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:4)</font> They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:5)</font> O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from thee.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:6)</font> Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek thee, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:7)</font> For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; shame has covered my face.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:8)</font> I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:9)</font> For the zeal of thine house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:10)</font> And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:11)</font> And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:12)</font> They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:13)</font> But I <i>will cry</i> to thee, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of thy mercy hear 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><font color=blue>(68:14)</font> Save me from the mire, that I stick not <i>in it</i>: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:15)</font> Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:16)</font> Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good: according to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:17)</font> And turn not away thy face from thy servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:18)</font> Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:19)</font> For thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before thee.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:20)</font> My 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.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:21)</font> They gave <i>me</i> also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:22)</font> Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling-block.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:23)</font> Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:24)</font> Pour out thy wrath upon them, and let the fury of thine anger take hold on them.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:25)</font> Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:26)</font> Because they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:27)</font> Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into thy righteousness.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:28)</font> Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:29)</font> I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of thy countenance has helped me.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:30)</font> I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:31)</font> and <i>this</i> shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:32)</font> Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and ye shall live.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:33)</font> For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nought his fettered ones.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:34)</font> Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:35)</font> For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and <i>men</i> shall dwell there, and inherit it.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/69-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><font color=blue>(68:36)</font> And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<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 href="../psalms/68.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 68"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 68" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/70.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 70"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 70" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>