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Psalms 68

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

68:1

For the end, [a Psalm] of David, for alternate [strains].

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68:2

Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.

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68:3

I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

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68:4

I am weary [of] crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

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68:5

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away.

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68:6

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from thee.

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68:7

Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek thee, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.

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68:8

For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; shame has covered my face.

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68:9

I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

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68:10

For the zeal of thine house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

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68:11

And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.

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68:12

And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

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68:13

They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.

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68:14

But I [will cry] to thee, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

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68:15

Save me from the mire, that I stick not [in it]: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

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68:16

Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

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68:17

Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good: according to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me.

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68:18

And turn not away thy face from thy servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.

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68:19

Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

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68:20

For thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before thee.

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68:21

My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none.

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68:22

They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

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68:23

Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompence, and for a stumbling-block.

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68:24

Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.

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68:25

Pour out thy wrath upon them, and let the fury of thine anger take hold on them.

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68:26

Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:

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68:27

because they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

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68:28

Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into thy righteousness.

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68:29

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

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68:30

I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of thy countenance has helped me.

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68:31

I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;

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68:32

and [this] shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.

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68:33

Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and ye shall live.

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68:34

For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nought his fettered ones.

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68:35

Let the heavens and the earth praise him, the sea, and all things moving in them.

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68:36

For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and [men] shall dwell there, and inherit it.

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68:37

And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

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