Psalms 69-72

Psalm 69

¹For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

²I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

³I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

⁵O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

⁶Let not them that wait on thee be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of hosts: let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonour through me, O God of Israel.

⁷Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

⁸I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

⁹For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

¹⁰When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb unto them.

¹²They that sit in the gate talk of me; and I am the song of the drunkards.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, answer me in the truth of thy salvation.

¹⁴Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

¹⁶Answer me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.

¹⁷And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress; answer me speedily.

¹⁸Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: ransom me because of mine enemies.

¹⁹Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

²⁰Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table before them become a snare; and when they are in peace, let it become a trap.

²³Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

²⁴Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

²⁵Let their habitation be desolate; let none dwell in their tents.

²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded,

²⁷Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

³¹And it shall please the LORD better than an ox, or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

³²The meek have seen it, and are glad: ye that seek after God, let your heart live.

³³For the LORD heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

³⁵For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; and they shall abide there, and have it in possession.

³⁶The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalm 70

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; to bring to remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

²Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour that delight in my hurt.

³Let them be turned back by reason of their shame that say, Aha, Aha.

⁴Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

⁵But I am poor and needy; make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

Psalm 71

¹In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be ashamed.

²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: bow down thine ear unto me, and save me.

³Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

⁴Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

⁵For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

⁶By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

⁷I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

⁸My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, and with thy honour all the day.

⁹Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

¹⁰For mine enemies speak concerning me; and they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

¹¹Saying, God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.

¹²O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste to help me.

¹³Let them be ashamed and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

¹⁴But I will hope continually, and will praise thee yet more and more.

¹⁵My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, and of thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

¹⁶I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

¹⁷O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

¹⁸Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, thy might to every one that is to come.

¹⁹Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?

²⁰Thou, which hast shewed us many and sore troubles, shalt quicken us again, and shalt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

²¹Increase thou my greatness, and turn again and comfort me.

²²I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing praises with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

²³My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing praises unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

²⁴My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are ashamed, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt.

Psalm 72

¹A Psalm of Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.

²He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

³The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, in righteousness.

⁴He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

⁵They shall fear thee while the sun endureth, and so long as the moon, throughout all generations.

⁶He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

⁷In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace, till the moon be no more.

⁸He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the River unto the ends of the earth.

⁹They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

¹¹Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

¹²For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; and the poor, that hath no helper.

¹³He shall have pity on the poor and needy, and the souls of the needy he shall save.

¹⁴He shall redeem their soul from oppression and violence; and precious shall their blood be in his sight:

¹⁵And they shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: and men shall pray for him continually; they shall bless him all the day long.

¹⁶There shall be abundance of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

¹⁷His name shall endure for ever; his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him; all nations shall call him happy.

¹⁸Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things:

¹⁹And blessed be his glorious name for ever; and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, and Amen.

²⁰The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.