{"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/web/psalms/69","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T02:37:31.715Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":69,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":68,"nextChapter":70,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":36},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"You know my reproach, 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. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein. For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 69 (WEB)","markdown":"[Psalms 69](https://primebible.com/web/psalms/69)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/psalms/69 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}