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Psalms 69:1
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Save me, God, For the waters have come up to my neck!
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Psalms 69:2
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I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
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Psalms 69:3
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I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
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Psalms 69:4
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Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.
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Psalms 69:5
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God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.
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Psalms 69:6
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Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord GOD of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Yisra'el.
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Psalms 69:7
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Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
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Psalms 69:8
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I have become a stranger to my brothers, An alien to my mother's children.
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Psalms 69:9
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For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
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Psalms 69:10
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When I wept and I fasted, That was to my reproach.
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Psalms 69:11
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When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
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Psalms 69:12
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Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
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Psalms 69:13
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But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
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Psalms 69:14
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Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
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Psalms 69:15
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Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
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Psalms 69:16
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Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
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Psalms 69:17
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Don't hide your face from your servant, For I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
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Psalms 69:18
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Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
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Psalms 69:19
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You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
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Psalms 69:20
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Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; For comforters, but I found none.
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Psalms 69:21
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They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
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Psalms 69:22
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Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
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Psalms 69:23
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Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.
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Psalms 69:24
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Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
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Psalms 69:25
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Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
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Psalms 69:26
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For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
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Psalms 69:27
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Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.
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Psalms 69:28
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Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.
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Psalms 69:29
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But I am in pain and distress. Let your yeshu`ah, God, protect me.
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Psalms 69:30
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I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify him with thanksgiving.
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Psalms 69:31
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It will please the LORD better than an ox, Or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
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Psalms 69:32
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The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
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Psalms 69:33
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For the LORD hears the needy, And doesn't despise his captive people.
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Psalms 69:34
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Let heaven and earth praise him; The seas, and everything that moves therein!
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Psalms 69:35
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For God will save Tziyon, and build the cities of Yehudah. They shall settle there, and own it.
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Psalms 69:36
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The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein. Psalm 70 For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.
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