Salmos 69

An Urgent Plea for Help in Trouble

To the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A Psalm of David.

1 Save me, O God!

For *Job 22:11; Jon. 2:5the waters have come up to my neck.

2 *Ps. 40:2I sink in deep mire,

Where thereis no standing;

I have come into deep waters,

Where the floods overflow me.

3 *Ps. 6:6I am weary with my crying;

My throat is dry;

*Deut. 28:32; Ps. 119:82, 123; Is. 38:14My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

4 Those who *Ps. 35:19; John 15:25hate me without a cause

Are more than the hairs of my head;

They are mighty who would destroy me,

Being my enemies wrongfully;

Though I have stolen nothing,

I still must restore it.

5 O God, You know my foolishness;

And my sins are not hidden from You.

6 Let not those who wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me;

Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.

7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;

Shame has covered my face.

8 *Is. 53:3; Mark 3:21; Luke 8:19; John 7:3–5I have become a stranger to my brothers,

And an alien to my mother’s children;

9 *John 2:17Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,

*Rom. 15:3And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

10 When I wept andchastened my soul with fasting,

That became my reproach.

11 I also made sackcloth my garment;

I became a byword to them.

12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me,

And I am the song of the *Job 30:9drunkards.

13 But as for me, my prayer is to You,

O Lord, in the acceptable time;

O God, in the multitude of Your mercy,

Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.

14 Deliver me out of the mire,

And let me not sink;

Let me be delivered from those who hate me,

And out of the deep waters.

15 Let not the floodwater overflow me,

Nor let the deep swallow me up;

And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

16 Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;

Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.

17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant,

For I am in trouble;

Hear me speedily.

18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it;

Deliver me because of my enemies.

19 You know *Ps. 22:6, 7; Heb. 12:2my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;

My adversaries are all before You.

20 Reproach has broken my heart,

And I am full of heaviness;

*Is. 63:5I looked forsomeone to take pity, but therewas none;

And for *Job 16:2comforters, but I found none.

21 They also gave me gall for my food,

*Matt. 27:34, 48; Mark 15:23, 36; Luke 23:36; John 19:28–30And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

22 *Rom. 11:9, 10Let their table become a snare before them,

And their well-being a trap.

23 *Is. 6:9, 10Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see;

And make their loins shake continually.

24 *(Jer. 10:25; 1 Thess. 2:16)Pour out Your indignation upon them,

And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.

25 *Matt. 23:38; Luke 13:35; Acts 1:20Let their dwelling place be desolate;

Let no one live in their tents.

26 For they persecute the ones*(Is. 53:4; 1 Pet. 2:24)You have struck,

And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.

27 *Neh. 4:5; (Rom. 1:28)Add iniquity to their iniquity,

*(Is. 26:10)And let them not come into Your righteousness.

28 Let them *(Ex. 32:32); Phil. 4:3; (Rev. 3:5; 13:8)be blotted out of the book of the living,

*Ezek. 13:9; Luke 10:20; Heb. 12:23And not be written with the righteous.

29 But I am poor and sorrowful;

Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

30 *(Ps. 28:7)I will praise the name of God with a song,

And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

31 *Ps. 50:13, 14, 23; 51:16This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bull,

Which has horns and hooves.

32 *Ps. 34:2The humble shall see thisand be glad;

And you who seek God, *Ps. 22:26your hearts shall live.

33 For the Lord hears the poor,

And does not despise *(Ps. 68:6); Eph. 3:1His prisoners.

34 *Ps. 96:11; Is. 44:23; 49:13Let heaven and earth praise Him,

The seas *Is. 55:12and everything that moves in them.

35 *Ps. 51:18; Is. 44:26For God will save Zion

And build the cities of Judah,

That they may dwell there and possess it.

36 Also, *Ps. 102:28the descendants of His servants shall inherit it,

And those who love His name shall dwell in it.