The King James Version Bible

Psalms 69:16-29

  1. Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

  2. And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

  3. Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

  4. Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

  5. Reproach hath 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.

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

  7. Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

  8. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

  9. Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

  10. Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

  11. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

  12. Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

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

  14. But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.