Psalms 69

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.	1 [For the choirmaster Tune: 'Lilies . . .' Of David] Save me, God, for the waters have closed in on myvery being.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.	2 I am sinking in the deepest swamp and there is no firm ground. I have stepped into deep water andthe waves are washing over me.
3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.	3 I am exhausted with cal ing out, my throat is hoarse, my eyes are worn out with searching for my God.
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.	4 More numerous than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without reason. Those who seek toget rid of me are powerful, my treacherous enemies. (Must I give back what I have never stolen?)
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.	5 God, you know how foolish I am, my offences are not hidden from you.
6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.	6 Those who hope in you must not be made fools of, Yahweh Sabaoth, because of me! Those who seekyou must not be disgraced, God of Israel, because of me!
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.	7 It is for you I bear insults, my face is covered with shame,
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.	8 I am estranged from my brothers, alienated from my own mother's sons;
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.	9 for I am eaten up with zeal for your house, and insults directed against you fall on me.
10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.	10 I mortify myself with fasting, and find myself insulted for it,
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.	11 I dress myself in sackcloth and become their laughing-stock,
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.	12 the gossip of people sitting at the gate, and the theme of drunkards' songs.
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.	13 And so, I pray to you, Yahweh, at the time of your favour; in your faithful love answer me, in theconstancy of your saving power.
14 Deliver 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.	14 Rescue me from the mire before I sink in; so I shal be saved from those who hate me, from thewatery depths.
15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.	15 Let not the waves wash over me, nor the deep swal ow me up, nor the pit close its mouth on me.
16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.	16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your faithful love is generous; in your tenderness turn towards me;
17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.	17 do not turn away from your servant, be quick to answer me, for I am in trouble.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.	18 Come to my side, redeem me, ransom me because of my enemies.
19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.	19 You know well the insults, the shame and disgrace I endure. Every one of my oppressors is known toyou.
20 Reproach 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.	20 Insult has broken my heart past cure. I hoped for sympathy, but in vain, for consolers -- not one to befound.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.	21 To eat they gave me poison, to drink, vinegar when I was thirsty.
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.	22 May their own table prove a trap for them, and their abundance a snare;
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.	23 may their eyes grow so dim that they cannot see, al their muscles lose their strength.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.	24 Vent your fury on them, let your burning anger overtake them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.	25 Reduce their encampment to ruin, and leave their tents untenanted,
26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.	26 for hounding someone you had already stricken, for redoubling the pain of one you had wounded.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.	27 Charge them with crime after crime, exclude them from your saving justice,
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.	28 erase them from the book of life, do not enrol them among the upright.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.	29 For myself, wounded wretch that I am, by your saving power raise me up!
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.	30 I wil praise God's name in song, I wil extol him by thanksgiving,
31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.	31 for this wil please Yahweh more than an ox, than a bullock horned and hoofed.
32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.	32 The humble have seen and are glad. Let your courage revive, you who seek God.
33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.	33 For God listens to the poor, he has never scorned his captive people.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and everything that moveth therein.	34 Let heaven and earth and seas, and al that stirs in them, acclaim him!
35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.	35 For God wil save Zion, and rebuild the cities of Judah, and people will live there on their own land;
36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.	36 the descendants of his servants wil inherit it, and those who love his name wil dwell there.