LEB PSA chapter 69

A Plea for Deliverance from Persecution

69 because waters have come up to my neck.[fn]
2 the mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths,
and the torrent floods over me.
3 out; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God.
4  are those hating me without a cause.
Those who are destroying me—my enemies wrongfully[fn]— are mighty.
What I did not steal, I then must restore.
5 [fn] my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.
6  O Lord Yahweh of hosts.
Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me,
O God of Israel.
7  disgrace has covered my face.
8  and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
9 [fn] has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.
10  it became reproaches for me.
11  I became for them a byword.
12 the gate talk about me as also[fn] the songs of the drunkards.
13 is to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love.
Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.
14 the mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me
and from the watery depths.
15  or the deep swallow me,
or the pit close its mouth over me.
16 is good; according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,
17  Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.
18  Because of my enemies, ransom me.
19 [fn] to you are all my adversaries.
20  And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none,
and for comforters, but I found none.
21 [fn] and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22  and their times of peace a snare.
23  and make their loins continually tremble.
24  and let your burning anger overtake them.
25  Let none dwell in their tents,
26 those whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded.
27 [fn] and do not let them[fn]
28 the book of the living, and let them not be recorded with the righteous.
29 though I am afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect[fn] me, O God.
30  and magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 or bull, horned and hoofed.[fn]
32 The afflicted will see and rejoice. O God seekers, let your heart revive,[fn]
33 the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners.
34  the seas and all that moves in them,
35  and build the cities of Judah,
that they may dwell there and possess it.
36  and those who love his name will abide in it.

69:? Hebrew “soul” or “life”

69:? Or, “those who oppose me with falsehood”

69:? Literally “you, you know”

69:? Or “temple”

69:? Hebrew “and”

69:? Literally “right in front of”

69:? Or “they put poison in my food”

69:? Literally “Give guilt on their guilt”

69:? Literally “come into your righteousness”

69:? The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress

69:? That is, mature and ritually clean

69:? Or “live”

LEB PSA Chapter 69