= Psalm 69 * Please see [[nsv:license|License]] for Copyright notice and Licensing information. * [ [[Psalm_68|Previous]] | [[Psalm_70|Next]] ] == Psalm 69 1 Save me, O God; 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: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. 6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. 7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath 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 thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. 10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16 Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. 18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. 19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. 20 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. 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 thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. 27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 31 This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. 32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. 33 For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. 34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. 35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. 36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein. == Notes == Cross Reference == Concordance == Commentary == Rashi ==== Verse 1 on shoshannim Concerning Israel, who are like a rose (שושנה) among the thorns, pricked by the thorns, and he prayed for them. ==== Verse 2 for water has come up the nations. ==== Verse 3 in muddy depths In the mire, the mud of the deep. and the current That is the flood of the strength of the river, fil in Old French, current. ==== Verse 4 has become parched Heb. נחר, dry, as (Job 30:30): “are burned (חרה) with heat.” my eyes fail Any drawn-out hope is called “failure of the eyes,” as (Deut. 28:32): “and pine after them all day”. [Similarly] (Lev. 26:16): “that cause the eyes to pine away”; (Job 11:20), “and the eyes of the wicked will pine away.” ==== Verse 5 who are my enemies because of lies They hate me because of a lie, because I do not pursue their lies to adopt their error. I will then return When they gather against me, I bribe them with money that I did not steal from them. ==== Verse 7 Do not let those who hope for You be shamed Do not leave me in their hands lest those who hope for You be shamed by what happens to me and say, “Didn’t that happen to one who hopes to the Holy One, blessed be He?” ==== Verse 9 to my brothers To Esau. ==== Verse 10 the envy of Your house They saw the love that You showed us when Your house was still existing, and they envied me. ==== Verse 11 And I bewailed my soul in fast In my fast. and it was a disgrace for me When I weep and fast before You, they mock me. ==== Verse 13 and melodies they made of me for those who imbibe strong drink. ==== Verse 14 But, as for me, may my prayer to You, O Lord, be may the time of my prayer be a desirable time. ==== Verse 16 and let not...close And let it not close over me. a well This strange trouble [shall not close] its mouth to swallow me up. close Heb. תאטר, as (Jud. 3:15): “with a shriveled (אטר) right hand” that he does not use it. ==== Verse 19 Come close to my soul (Come close to me.) redeem it Heb. גאלה, [equivalent to] גְאוֹל אוֹתָה. ==== Verse 21 and I have become ill Heb. ואנושה, I am ailing and sick, as (Micah 1:9): “For she is mortally ill (אנושה) [from] her wounds,” and as (II Sam. 12:15): “and the child (sic) became mortally ill (ויאנש),” of Bathsheba. Now if you ask how this “aleph” serves as a radical and also as a prefix denoting the first person, this is the way of a word beginning with “aleph.” For example, (Mal. 1:2): “and I loved (וָאֹהַב) Jacob”; (Prov. 8:17), “I will love (אֵהָב) those who love me.” It is equivalent to וָאֶאֶהַב Similarly, (Zeph. 1:2): “I will totally destroy (אָסֹף אָסֵף),” like אֶאֶסֹף. for sympathy Heb. לנוד, to shake. That friends should come to me to shake [their heads] over me and to comfort me. ==== Verse 22 into my food Heb. בברותי, into my food, as (II Sam. 13:6): “Let my sister Tamar come now, etc., that I may eat (ואברה) from her hand.” ==== Verse 23 and for peace When they hope for peace, may their peace be turned into a snare. ==== Verse 27 For this nation, which You smote. they pursued For You were a little angry, and they helped cause harm. and about the pain of those whom You wounded they tell their words, to plot: “Let us destroy them while they are in pain.” ==== Verse 32 And it will appeal to the Lord My praise to the Lord. more than a young bull that is mature That is the bull sacrificed by Adam, which was created at its height. On the day it was called שּׁוֹר, on that very day, he brought it, for a bull on day of its birth is called שּׁוֹר, as it is said (Lev. 22:27): “A bull (שור), a lamb, or a goat, that is born.” On that very day, it resembled a פַּר, which is a three-year old. with horns and hooves Its horns preceded its hooves, because it was created at its height with its horns, and its head emerged from the ground first; the earth thrust them forth in the manner in which all creatures are born, so that its horns preceded its feet.