{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/69","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:33:06.058Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":69,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":68,"nextChapter":70,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":36},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I am become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's children."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen on me."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Let not the flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth on me."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Reproach has 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."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Pour out your indignation on them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 69 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 69](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/69)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/69 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}