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TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN<\/strong><\/p>\n UPON SHOSHANNIM,<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A PSALM OF DAVID.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n SAVE ME,<\/strong><\/p>\n O GOD;<\/strong><\/p>\n FOR THE WATERS<\/strong><\/p>\n ARE COME IN<\/strong><\/p>\n UNTO MY SOUL.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I sink in deep mire,<\/p>\n where there is no standing:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am come into deep waters,<\/p>\n where the floods overflow me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am weary of my crying:<\/p>\n my throat is dried:<\/p>\n mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They that hate me without a cause<\/p>\n are more than the hairs of mine head:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n they that would destroy me,<\/p>\n being mine enemies wrongfully,<\/p>\n are mighty:<\/p>\n then I restored that which I took not away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n O God,<\/p>\n thou knowest my foolishness;<\/p>\n and my sins are not hid from thee.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let not them that wait on thee,<\/p>\n O Lord GOD of hosts,<\/p>\n be ashamed for my sake:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n let not those that seek thee be confounded<\/p>\n for my sake,<\/p>\n O God of Israel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Because<\/p>\n for thy sake I have borne reproach;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n shame hath covered my face.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am become a stranger unto my brethren,<\/p>\n and an alien unto my mother’s children.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n and the reproaches of them that reproached thee<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n are fallen upon me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When I wept,<\/p>\n and chastened my soul with fasting,<\/p>\n that was to my reproach.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I made sackcloth also my garment;<\/p>\n and I became a proverb to them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They that sit in the gate speak against me;<\/p>\n and I was the song of the drunkards.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But as for me,<\/p>\n my prayer is unto thee,<\/p>\n O LORD,<\/p>\n in an acceptable time:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n O God,<\/p>\n in the multitude of thy mercy hear me,<\/p>\n in the truth of thy salvation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deliver me out of the mire,<\/p>\n and let me not sink:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n let me be delivered from them that hate me,<\/p>\n and out of the deep waters.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let not the waterflood overflow me,<\/p>\n neither let the deep swallow me up,<\/p>\n and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hear me,<\/p>\n O LORD;<\/p>\n for thy lovingkindness is good:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n turn unto me according to the multitude<\/p>\n of thy tender mercies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And hide not thy face from thy servant;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n for I am in trouble:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n hear me speedily.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Draw nigh unto my soul,<\/p>\n and redeem it:<\/p>\n deliver me because of mine enemies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thou hast known my reproach,<\/p>\n and my shame,<\/p>\n and my dishonour:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n mine adversaries are all before thee.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reproach hath broken my heart;<\/p>\n and I am full of heaviness:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and I looked for some to take pity,<\/p>\n but there was none;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and for comforters,<\/p>\n but I found none.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They gave me also gall for my meat;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let their table become a snare before them:<\/p>\n and that which should have been for their welfare,<\/p>\n let it become a trap.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let their eyes be darkened,<\/p>\n that they see not;<\/p>\n and make their loins continually to shake.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pour out thine indignation upon them,<\/p>\n and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let their habitation be desolate;<\/p>\n and let none dwell in their tents.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;<\/p>\n and they talk to the grief<\/p>\n of those whom thou hast wounded.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Add iniquity unto their iniquity:<\/p>\n and let them not come into thy righteousness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let them be blotted out of the book of the living<\/em>,<\/p>\n and not be written with the righteous.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But I am poor and sorrowful:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n let thy salvation,<\/p>\n O God,<\/p>\n set me up on high.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I will praise the name of God with a song,<\/p>\n and will magnify him with thanksgiving.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This also shall please the LORD<\/p>\n better than an ox<\/p>\n or bullock<\/p>\n that hath horns and hoofs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The humble shall see this,<\/p>\n and be glad:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and your heart shall live that seek God.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For the LORD heareth the poor,<\/p>\n and despiseth not his prisoners.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let the heaven and earth praise him,<\/p>\n the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For God will save Zion,<\/p>\n and will build the cities of Judah:<\/p>\n that they may dwell there,<\/p>\n and have it in possession.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The seed<\/em> also of his servants shall inherit it:<\/p>\n and they that love his name shall dwell therein.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n next<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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SAVE ME, O GOD; FOR THE WATERS ARE COME IN UNTO MY SOUL. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am … Continue reading Psalm 69<\/em><\/h6>\n