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Psalms

Chapter 69

1a~~{Title 1}To the 'Chief Musician'/'Choir Director' {natsach}
upon the 'Lilly {Shuwshan} of David'.

{Note: See Chapter 60 where the Lilly is called the 'Lilly of the Testimony' - which RBT says is a reference to a song to be sung while learning and doing the manual of arms.}

1b Save me, O 'Elohiym/Godhead.

For the waters are come in unto my soul.

2 I sink in deep mire,
where there is no standing.

I am come into deep waters,
where the floods overflow me.

3 I am weary of my crying.

My throat is dried.

My eyes fail
while I wait for my 'Elohiym/Godhead.

4 Those who hate me without a cause
are more than the hairs of my head.

Those who would destroy me,
being my enemies wrongfully,
are mighty.

Then I restored that which I took not away.

5 O 'Elohiym/Godhead,
You know my foolishness.

And my sins are not hid from You.

6`` Let not those who wait on you,
O Lord/'Adonay . . .
Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts,
be ashamed for my sake.

Let not those who seek you
be confounded for my sake,
O 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel.

7 Because for Your sake
I have borne reproach.

Shame has covered my face.

8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren,
and an alien unto my mother's children.

9 For the zeal of your house
has eaten me up.

And the reproaches of those
who reproached You
are fallen upon me {quoted in Romans 15:3}.

10 I kept on weeping my soul . . . fasting . . .
my reproach/scorn.

11 I made sackcloth also my garment;
and I became a proverb to them.

12 Those who sit in the gate
  {the 'city elders' judge here}
speak against me;
and I was the song of the drunkards.

13 But as for me,
my prayer is unto you,
O Jehovah/God,
in an acceptable time.

O 'Elohiym/Godhead,
in the multitude of Your mercy hear me,
in the Truth/Doctrine of Your deliverance/salvation.

14 Deliver me out of the mire,
and let me not sink.

Let me be delivered from those who hate me,
and out of the deep waters.

15 Let not the water-flood overflow me,
neither let the deep swallow me up,
and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

16 Hear me, O Jehovah/God . . .
for Your lovingkindness is good.

Turn unto me
according to the multitude
of Your tender mercies.

17 And hide not Your face from Your servant . . .
for I am in trouble.

Hear me speedily.

18 Draw near unto my soul,
and redeem it.

Deliver me because of my enemies.

19 You have known my reproach,
and my shame,
and my dishonor.

My adversaries are all before You.

20 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.

21 They gave me also gall for my meat;
and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

22 Let their table become a snare before them.

And that which should have been for their welfare,
let it become a trap.

23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not.

And make their loins continually to shake.

24 Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.

25~~ Let their habitation be desolate
and let none dwell in their tents.
  {refers to Judas - see Acts 1:18-20}

26 For they persecute
Him Whom You have smitten
and they talk to the grief of those
whom You have wounded.

27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity
and let them not come into Your righteousness.

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
and not be written with the righteous.

29 But I am humble/'oriented to the grace of God'
and in pain.

Let Your deliverance/salvation, O 'Elohiym/Godhead,
set me up on high.

30 I will praise the name of 'Elohiym/Godhead
with a song,
and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

31 This also shall please Jehovah/God
better than an ox or bullock
that has horns and hoofs.

32 The humble have seen.

Keep on being glad.

Hearts/'Right lobes' shall keep on living
who seek 'Elohiym/Godhead.

33 For Jehovah/God hears the humble/'grace oriented',
and despises not His prisoners.

34 Let the heaven and earth praise Him,
the seas, and every thing that moves therein.

35~~For 'Elohiym/Godhead will deliver Zion,
and will build the cities of Judah
that they may dwell there,
and possess it.

36~~And the descendents of His servant {David}
will inherit it
and those who love His Name {Jesus Christ}
will dwell in it.