- 69:1Save me, O God; for the waters / Threaten my life.
- 69:2I sink in deep mire, / And there is no place to stand; / I have come to the depths of water, / And the flood flows over me.
- 69:3I am weary of my crying; / My throat is parched; / My eyes fail / While I wait for my God.
- 69:4More numerous than the hairs of my head / Are those who hate me without cause; / Mighty are those who would destroy me, / Those who are wrongly my enemies. / What I did not steal, / I must then restore.
- 69:5O God, You know my foolishness, / And my sins of guilt are not hidden from You.
- 69:6Do not let those who wait on You be put to shame because of me, / O Lord Jehovah of hosts; / Do not let those who seek You be humiliated because of me, / O God of Israel.
- 69:7Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; / Humiliation has covered my face.
- 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, / And a foreigner to my mother's children.
- 69:9For the zeal of Your house has devoured me, / And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
- 69:10When I wept, when my soul was in fasting, / That became a reproach to me.
- 69:11When I made sackcloth my clothing, / I became a proverb to them.
- 69:12Those who sit in the gate talk about me, / And I am the mocking song of those who drink liquor.
- 69:13But as for me, my prayer is to You, / O Jehovah, in an acceptable time; / O God, in the abundance of Your lovingkindness answer me, / In the faithfulness of Your salvation.
- 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; / May I be delivered from those who hate me, / And out of the depths of water.
- 69:15Do not let the flood of water flow over me, / Nor let the deep swallow me, / Nor let the pit close its mouth over me.
- 69:16Answer me, O Jehovah; for Your lovingkindness is good; / According to the abundance of Your compassions turn to me.
- 69:17And do not hide Your face from Your servant, / For I am in distress; hurry and answer me.
- 69:18Draw near to my soul; redeem it; / Ransom me because of my enemies.
- 69:19You know my reproach / And my shame and my humiliation; / All my adversaries are before You.
- 69:20Reproach has broken my heart, / And I am sick; / I looked for pity, but there was none; / And for comforters, but I found none.
- 69:21But they gave me gall for my food, / And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- 69:22May their table become a snare before them / And a trap when they are at peace.
- 69:23May their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see; / And make their loins shake continually.
- 69:24Pour out Your indignation upon them; / And may the burning fierceness of Your anger overtake them.
- 69:25May their camp be desolate; / May there be no one to dwell in their tents.
- 69:26For they persecute him whom You have stricken, / And they recount the pain of those whom You have wounded.
- 69:27Add iniquity to their iniquity, / And do not let them come into Your righteousness.
- 69:28May they be blotted out of the book of life, / And may they not be written with the righteous.
- 69:29But I am poor and pained; / May Your salvation, O God, set me on high.
- 69:30I will praise the name of God with a song / And will magnify Him with thanksgiving;
- 69:31And it will be better to Jehovah than an ox / Or a bull with horns and hooves.
- 69:32The meek have seen it; they rejoice. / You who seek God, let your heart revive.
- 69:33For Jehovah listens to the needy, / And He does not despise His prisoners.
- 69:34Let the heavens and the earth praise Him, / The seas and everything that moves in them.
- 69:35For God will save Zion / And build the cities of Judah; / And they will abide there and possess it.
- 69:36And the seed of His servants will inherit it, / And those who love His name will dwell in it.
- To the choir director. Of David, for remembrance
- 70:1O God, hasten to deliver me; / O Jehovah, hasten to help me.
- 70:2May those who seek my life / Be put to shame and confounded; / May those who take delight in my misfortune / Be turned back and humiliated;
- 70:3May those who say, Aha! Aha! / Turn away because of their shame;
- 70:4May all those who seek You / Be glad and rejoice in You; / And may those who love Your salvation / Say continually, / May God be magnified!
- 70:5But I am poor and needy; / O God, hasten to me. / You are my help and my Deliverer; / O Jehovah, do not delay.
- 71:1In You, O Jehovah, do I take refuge; / Never let me be put to shame.
- 71:2In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; / Incline Your ear to me and save me.
- 71:3Be to me a rock of habitation for me to come to continually. / You have given command to save me, / For You are my rock and my fortress.
- 71:4My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked, / From the hand of the unjust and cruel;
- 71:5For You are my hope, O Lord Jehovah, / My trust from my youth.
- 71:6On You I have been sustained since birth; / It was You who took me from my mother's womb; / My praise is continually of You.
- 71:7I am like a wonder to many, / But You are my strong refuge.
- 71:8My mouth is filled with Your praise, / With Your glory, all day long.
- 71:9Do not cast me off in the time of old age; / When my strength fails, do not forsake me.
- 71:10For my enemies speak concerning me, / And those who watch for my soul take counsel together,
- 71:11Saying, God has forsaken him; / Pursue and lay hold of him, for there is no one to deliver him.
- 71:12O God, do not be far away from me; / My God, hasten to help me.
- 71:13May those who are the adversaries to my soul / Be put to shame and consumed; / May those who seek my misfortune / Wrap themselves in reproach and humiliation.
- 71:14But I will hope continually / And will add yet more to all Your praise.
- 71:15My mouth will recount Your righteousness, / Your salvation, all day long; / For I do not know its full numbers.
- 71:16I will come with the proof of the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah; / I will remind men of Your righteousness, Yours alone.
- 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth; / And until now I have declared Your wondrous deeds.
- 71:18So even into my old age and grayheadedness, / O God, do not forsake me, / Until I have declared Your strength / Unto the next generation, / Your might unto everyone who is to come.
- 71:19And Your righteousness, O God, is so high, / You who have done great things. / O God, who is like You?
- 71:20You who have shown me / Many great troubles / Will revive me again / And bring me up again / From the depths of the earth.
- 71:21You will increase my greatness / And will turn and comfort me.
- 71:22I will also praise You with the harp, / I will praise Your faithfulness, my God; / I will sing psalms to You with the lyre, / O Holy One of Israel.
- 71:23My lips will give a ringing shout / When I sing psalms to You, / And my soul, which You have redeemed.
- 71:24My tongue also will declare / Your righteousness all day long; / For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, / They who seek my misfortune.
- Of Solomon
- 72:1O God, give Your judgments to the king, / And Your righteousness to the son of the king.
- 72:2He will judge Your people in righteousness, / And Your poor with justice.
- 72:3The mountains will bear peace to the people, / And the hills, in righteousness.
- 72:4He will judge the poor of the people; / He will save the children of the needy / And crush the oppressor.
- 72:5They will fear You as long as the sun endures / And as long as the moon endures / Throughout the generations.
- 72:6He will drop like rain upon mown grass, / Like abundant showers dripping on the earth.
- 72:7In His days the righteous will flourish, / And there will be an abundance of peace / Until the moon is no more.
- 72:8And He will have dominion from sea to sea / And from the River unto the ends of the earth.
- 72:9The desert dwellers will bow down before Him, / And His enemies will lick the dust.
- 72:10The kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands / Will pay tribute; / The kings of Sheba and Seba / Will present gifts.
- 72:11And all the kings will bow down before Him; / All the nations will serve Him.
- 72:12For He will deliver the needy man when he cries, / And the poor man who has no one to help him.
- 72:13He will have pity on the weak and needy, / And the souls of the needy He will save.
- 72:14From oppression and violence / He will redeem their soul, / And their blood will be precious in His sight.
- 72:15So He shall live and to Him shall be given / The gold of Sheba; / And prayer shall be made continually for Him; / He shall be blessed all the day long.
- 72:16There will be an abundance of grain on the earth, / Even at the tops of the mountains. / Its fruit will wave like the forests of Lebanon, / And those of the city will blossom like the foliage of the earth.
- 72:17His name will be forever; / As long as the sun endures, His name will spread; / And men will be blessed in Him; / All the nations will call Him blessed.
- 72:18Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel, / Who alone does wondrous deeds;
- 72:19And blessed be His glorious name forever; / And may His glory fill the whole earth. / Amen and Amen.
- 72:20The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.