PSALM 69. _Salvum me fac_.
Save me, O God: for the waters are come in, even unto my soul.
2 I stick fast in the deep mire, where no ground is: I am come
into deep waters, so that the floods run over me.
3 I am weary of crying; my throat is dry: my sight faileth me for
waiting so long upon my God.
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my
head: they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltless,
are mighty.
5 I paid them the things that I never took: God, thou knowest my
simpleness, and my faults are not hid from thee.
6 Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed
for my cause: let not those that seek thee be confounded through
me, O Lord God of Israel.
7 And why? for thy sake have I suffered reproof: shame hath covered
my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren: even an alien unto my
mother's children.
9 For the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me: and the rebukes
of them that rebuked thee are fallen upon me.
10 I wept, and chastened myself with fasting: and that was turned
to my reproof.