Psalms 69

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 For the leader; according to "Lilies." Of David.	1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.
2 Save me, God, for the waters have reached my neck.	2 SAVE me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.
3 I have sunk into the mire of the deep, where there is no foothold. I have gone down to the watery depths; the flood overwhelms me.	3 I stick fast in the mire of the deep: and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.
4 I am weary with crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes have failed, looking for my God.	4 I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.
5 More numerous than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause. Too many for my strength are my treacherous enemies. Must I now restore what I did not steal?	5 They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.
6 God, you know my folly; my faults are not hidden from you.	6 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:
7 Let those who wait for you, LORD of hosts, not be shamed through me. Let those who seek you, God of Israel, not be disgraced through me	7 Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.
8 For your sake I bear insult, shame covers my face.	8 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
9 I have become an outcast to my kin, a stranger to my mother's children.	9 I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.
10 Because zeal for your house consumes me, I am scorned by those who scorn you.	10 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
11 I have wept and fasted, but this led only to scorn.	11 And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.
12 I clothed myself in sackcloth; I became a byword for them.	12 And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.
13 They who sit at the gate gossip about me; drunkards make me the butt of their songs.	13 They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.
14 But I pray to you, LORD, for the time of your favor. God, in your great kindness answer me with your constant help.	14 But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
15 Rescue me from the mire; do not let me sink. Rescue me from my enemies and from the watery depths.	15 Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
16 Do not let the floodwaters overwhelm me, nor the deep swallow me, nor the mouth of the pit close over me.	16 Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
17 Answer me, LORD, in your generous love; in your great mercy turn to me.	17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
18 Do not hide your face from your servant; in my distress hasten to answer me.	18 And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.
19 Come and ransom my life; because of my enemies redeem me.	19 Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.
20 You know my reproach, my shame, my disgrace; before you stand all my foes.	20 Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.
21 Insult has broken my heart, and I am weak; I looked for compassion, but there was none, for comforters, but found none.	21 In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.
22 Instead they put gall in my food; for my thirst they gave me vinegar.	22 And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
23 Make their own table a snare for them, a trap for their friends.	23 Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.
24 Make their eyes so dim they cannot see; keep their backs ever feeble.	24 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.
25 Pour out your wrath upon them; let the fury of your anger overtake them.	25 Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
26 Make their camp desolate, with none to dwell in their tents.	26 Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.
27 For they pursued the one you struck, added to the pain of the one you wounded.	27 Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
28 Add that to their crimes; let them not attain to your reward.	28 Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.
29 Strike them from the book of the living; do not count them among the just!	29 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.
30 But I am afflicted and in pain; let your saving help protect me, God,	30 But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.
31 That I may praise God's name in song and glorify it with thanksgiving.	31 I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.
32 My song will please the LORD more than oxen, more than bullocks with horns and hooves:	32 And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.
33 "See, you lowly ones, and be glad; you who seek God, take heart!	33 Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
34 For the LORD hears the poor, does not spurn those in bondage.	34 For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.
35 Let the heavens and the earth sing praise, the seas and whatever moves in them!"	35 Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.
36 God will rescue Zion, rebuild the cities of Judah. God's servants shall dwell in the land and possess it;	36 For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.
37 7) it shall be the heritage of their descendants; those who love God's name shall dwell there.	37 And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.