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Psalm 69

	Psa 69:1	To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
	Psa 69:2	I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
	Psa 69:3	I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
	Psa 69:4	More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
	Psa 69:5	O God, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.
	Psa 69:6	Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
	Psa 69:7	For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.
	Psa 69:8	I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons.
	Psa 69:9	For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
	Psa 69:10	When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
	Psa 69:11	When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
	Psa 69:12	I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
	Psa 69:13	But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of thy steadfast love answer me. With thy faithful help
	Psa 69:14	rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
	Psa 69:15	Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.
	Psa 69:16	Answer me, O LORD, for thy steadfast love is good; according to thy abundant mercy, turn to me.
	Psa 69:17	Hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress, make haste to answer me.
	Psa 69:18	Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies!
	Psa 69:19	Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to thee.
	Psa 69:20	Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
	Psa 69:21	They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
	Psa 69:22	Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
	Psa 69:23	Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and make their loins tremble continually.
	Psa 69:24	Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy burning anger overtake them.
	Psa 69:25	May their camp be a desolation, let no one dwell in their tents.
	Psa 69:26	For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and him whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.
	Psa 69:27	Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from thee.
	Psa 69:28	Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
	Psa 69:29	But I am afflicted and in pain; let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!
	Psa 69:30	I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
	Psa 69:31	This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
	Psa 69:32	Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
	Psa 69:33	For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
	Psa 69:34	Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.
	Psa 69:35	For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it;
	Psa 69:36	the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

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