Psalm 69:19–37 | Liturgical Calendar

19

Draw nigh unto my soul, and save it *

O deliver me, because of mine enemies.

20

Thou hast known my reproof, my shame, and my dishonour *

mine adversaries are all in thy sight.

21

Thy rebuke hath broken my heart; I am full of heaviness *

I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me.

22

They gave me gall to eat *

and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.

23

Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withal *

and let the things that should have been for their wealth be unto them an occasion of falling.

24

Let their eyes be blinded, that they see not *

and ever bow thou down their backs.

25

Pour out thine indignation upon them *

and let thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them.

26

Let their habitation be void *

and no man to dwell in their tents.

27

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten *

and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded.

28

Let them fall from one wickedness to another *

and not come into thy righteousness.

29

Let them be wiped out of the book of the living *

and not be written among the righteous.

30

As for me, when I am poor and in heaviness *

thy help, O God, shall lift me up.

31

I will praise the Name of God with a song *

and magnify it with thanksgiving.

32

This also shall please the Lord *

better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

33

The humble shall consider this, and be glad *

seek ye after God, and your soul shall live.

34

For the Lord heareth the poor *

and despiseth not his prisoners.

35

Let heaven and earth praise him *

the sea, and all that moveth therein.

36

For God will save Sion, and build the cities of Judah *

that men may dwell there, and have it in possession.

37

The posterity also of his servants shall inherit it *

and they that love his Name shall dwell therein.