PSALM 69

Prayer for Deliverance from Persecution

Psalm 69:1 Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

Psalm 69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

Psalm 69:3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Psalm 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?

Psalm 69:5 O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.

Psalm 69:6 Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

Psalm 69:7 For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.

Psalm 69:8 I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother’s sons.

Psalm 69:9 For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

Psalm 69:10 When I humbled  my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

Psalm 69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Psalm 69:12 I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.

Psalm 69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your mercy answer me. With your faithful help

Psalm 69:14rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

Psalm 69:15 Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.

Psalm 69:16 Answer me, O LORD, for your merciful love is good; according to your abundant compassion, turn to me.

Psalm 69:17 Hide not your face from your servant; for I am in distress, make haste to answer me.

Psalm 69:18 Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies!

Psalm 69:19 You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 69:21 They gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 69:22 Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts  be a trap.

Psalm 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and make their loins tremble continually.

Psalm 69:24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.

Psalm 69:25 May their camp be a desolation, let no one dwell in their tents.

Psalm 69:26 For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and him  whom you have wounded, they afflict still more.

Psalm 69:27 Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from you.

Psalm 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

Psalm 69:29 But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high!

Psalm 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Psalm 69:31 This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

Psalm 69:32 Let the humble see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

Psalm 69:33 For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds

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Psalm 69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.

Psalm 69:35 For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell  there and possess it;

Psalm 69:36 the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.