Book of Psalms, No. 69
Psalms 69 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 69 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ Save me, O God, for the waters have come clear to the soul.[a]1
- ¶ I have sunk down in deep mire, where there is no standing ground.2
I have come into profound waters,
And a flowing stream[b] itself has washed me away.3 - ¶ I have become tired by my calling out;4
My throat has become hoarse.
My eyes have failed while waiting for my God.5 - ¶ Those hating me without a cause have become even more than the hairs of my head.6
Those bringing me to silence, being my enemies for no reason, have become numerous.7
What I had not taken by robbery I then proceeded to give back. - ¶ O God, you yourself have come to know my foolishness,
And from you my own guiltiness has not been hidden.8 - ¶ O may those hoping in you not be ashamed because of me,9
O Sovereign Lord, Jehovah of armies.10
¶ O may those seeking you not be humiliated because of me,11
O God of Israel.12 - ¶ For on your account I have borne reproach,13
Humiliation has covered my face.14 - ¶ I have become one estranged to my brothers,15
And a foreigner to the sons of my mother.16 - ¶ For sheer zeal for your house has eaten me up,17
And the very reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen upon me.18 - ¶ And I proceeded to weep with the fasting of my soul,19
But it came to be for reproaches to me.20 - ¶ When I made sackcloth my clothing,
Then I became to them a proverbial saying.21 - ¶ Those sitting in the gate began concerning themselves about me,22
And [I was] the subject of the songs of drinkers of intoxicating liquor.23 - ¶ But as for me, my prayer was to you, O Jehovah,[c]24
At an acceptable time, O God.25
In the abundance of your loving-kindness answer me with the truth of salvation by you.26 - ¶ Deliver me from the mire, that I may not sink down.27
O may I be delivered from those hating me28 and from the deep waters.29 - ¶ O may not the flowing stream of waters wash me away,30
Nor the depth swallow me up,
Nor the well close its mouth over me.31 - ¶ Answer me, O Jehovah, for your loving-kindness is good.32
According to the multitude of your mercies turn to me,33 - ¶ And do not conceal your face from your servant.34
Because I am in sore straits, answer me quickly.35 - ¶ Do come near to my soul, reclaim it;36
On account of my enemies redeem me.37 - ¶ You yourself have come to know my reproach and my shame and my humiliation.38
All those showing hostility to me are in front of you.39 - ¶ Reproach itself has broken my heart, and [the wound] is incurable.40
And I kept hoping for someone to show sympathy, but there was none;41
And for comforters, but I found none.42 - ¶ But for food[d] they gave [me] a poisonous plant,[e]43
And for my thirst they tried to make me drink vinegar.44 - ¶ Let their table before them become a trap,45
And what is for their welfare a snare.46 - ¶ Let their eyes become darkened so as not to see;47
And cause their very hips to wobble constantly.48 - ¶ Pour out upon them your denunciation,49
And may your own burning anger overtake them.50 - ¶ Let their walled camp become desolate;51
In their tents may there come to be no dweller.52 - ¶ For the one whom you yourself have struck they have pursued,53
And the pains of those pierced by you they keep recounting. - ¶ Do give error upon their error,54
And may they not come into your righteousness.55 - ¶ Let them be wiped out of the book of the living ones,[f]56
And with the righteous ones may they not be written in.57 - ¶ But I am afflicted and aching.58
May your own salvation, O God, protect me.59 - ¶ I will praise the name of God[g] with song,60
And I will magnify him with thanksgiving.61 - ¶ This will also be more pleasing to Jehovah[h] than a bull,62
Than a young bull displaying horns, splitting the hoof.63 - ¶ The meek ones will certainly see [it]; they will rejoice.64
YOU who are seeking God, let YOUR heart also keep alive.65 - ¶ For Jehovah is listening to the poor ones,66
And he will indeed not despise his very own prisoners.[i]67 - ¶ Let heaven and earth praise him,68
The seas and everything moving about in them.69 - ¶ For God himself will save Zion70
And will build the cities of Judah;71
And they will certainly dwell there and take possession of it.[j]72 - ¶ And the offspring[k] of his servants themselves will inherit it,73
And those loving his name will be the ones to reside in it.74
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Or, “life.” Heb., naʹphesh; T(Aram.)Syr., naph·shaʼ; Gr., psy·khesʹ; Lat., aʹni·mam.
- ^ “And a flowing stream.” Heb., weshib·boʹleth.
- ^ “Jehovah.” Heb., Yehwahʹ; Fragment SymP. Vindob. G. 39777, the Tetragrammaton in archaic Heb. characters. See App 1C §9.
- ^ Or, “bread of consolation.”
- ^ Or, “they proceeded to put poison.”
- ^ Or, “book of life.”
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼElo·himʹ. Fragment SymP. Vindob. G. 39777 has here “Jehovah God,” with the Tetragrammaton in archaic Heb. characters. See App 1C §9.
- ^ See App 1C §9.
- ^ Or, “those of his who are prisoners.”
- ^ “It,” fem., referring to the land.
- ^ Lit., “seed.”
REFERENCES
- ^ Ps 144:7; La 3:54; Jon 2:5; Re 12:15
- ^ Ps 40:2; 88:6; Je 38:6
- ^ Ps 32:6; Jon 2:3
- ^ Ps 6:6; 22:2
- ^ Ps 25:21; 119:82, 123; Is 38:14
- ^ Ps 35:19; Lu 23:22; Jn 15:25
- ^ Ps 35:12; 109:3
- ^ Je 16:17
- ^ Ps 25:3; 35:26
- ^ Ps 24:10
- ^ Is 49:23
- ^ Ps 72:18; Ac 13:17
- ^ Ps 22:6; 44:22; Je 15:15; Mt 5:11
- ^ Is 50:6; 53:3; Mt 26:67; 27:29
- ^ Jb 19:13; Ps 31:11; Mt 26:56; Jn 1:11; 7:5
- ^ 1Sa 17:28; Mc 7:6
- ^ 1Ki 19:10; Ps 119:139; Mt 21:12; Mr 11:15; Jn 2:17
- ^ Pr 27:11; Ro 15:3
- ^ Ps 35:13; 109:24
- ^ Ps 102:8
- ^ 1Ki 9:7; Ps 44:14; Je 24:9
- ^ Lu 23:2
- ^ Jb 30:9; Mr 15:19
- ^ Heb 5:7
- ^ Is 49:8; 55:6; 2Co 6:2
- ^ Ps 68:20
- ^ Ps 69:2; La 3:55
- ^ Ps 25:19; 35:19
- ^ Ps 144:7
- ^ Is 43:2
- ^ Nu 16:33; Ps 16:10
- ^ Ps 36:7; 63:3; 109:21
- ^ Ps 25:16; 86:16
- ^ Ps 27:9; 102:2
- ^ Ps 31:9; 40:13; 70:1
- ^ Jb 6:23
- ^ Jos 7:9
- ^ Ps 22:6; Is 53:3; Heb 12:2
- ^ Jn 8:49
- ^ Ps 42:10
- ^ Ps 142:4; 2Ti 4:16
- ^ Jb 19:14
- ^ Mt 27:34; Mr 15:23
- ^ Mt 27:48; Mr 15:36; Lu 23:36; Jn 19:29
- ^ Ro 11:9
- ^ 1Pe 2:8
- ^ Is 6:9; Jn 12:40; Ac 28:26; 2Co 3:14
- ^ De 28:65; Eze 29:7; Ro 11:10
- ^ Mt 23:35; 1Th 2:16; Re 16:1
- ^ Ps 21:9
- ^ 1Ki 9:8; Je 7:12; Mt 23:38; 24:2
- ^ Ac 1:20
- ^ 2Ch 28:9; Ps 109:16; Is 53:4; Zc 1:15
- ^ Ps 109:17; Is 13:11; 2Ti 4:14
- ^ Is 26:10
- ^ Ex 32:33; Re 22:19
- ^ Eze 13:9; Pp 4:3; Re 3:5; 13:8
- ^ Ps 109:22
- ^ Ps 18:3
- ^ Ps 28:7
- ^ Ps 34:3; 50:23
- ^ Ps 50:13
- ^ Ho 14:2
- ^ Ps 34:2
- ^ Ps 22:26
- ^ Ps 10:17; 102:17; Is 66:2; Lu 4:18
- ^ Ps 107:10; 146:7; Is 61:1; Zc 9:11; Ac 5:19; 12:7
- ^ Ps 19:1; 96:11; 148:1; Is 44:23; 49:13
- ^ Ps 148:7
- ^ Ps 51:18; Is 14:32; 44:26
- ^ Je 33:10; Eze 36:35
- ^ Je 33:11
- ^ Ps 102:28; Is 61:9; 66:22
- ^ Ps 91:14; Jm 1:12
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