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Psalms 68
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1(69) For the end, [a Psalm] of David, for alternate [strains]. Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.
1Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
2I 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.
2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
3I am weary [of] crying, my throat has become hoarse; my eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.
3But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4They 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.
4Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
5O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you.
5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6Let not them that wait on you, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek you, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.
6God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face.
7O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
8I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.
8The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.
9Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
10And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.
10Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
11And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.
11The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
12They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.
12Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
13But I [will cry] to you, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
13Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
14Save me from the mire, that I stick not [in it]: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.
14When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
15Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.
15The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
16Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me.
16Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.
17And turn not away your face from your servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.
17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
18Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
18Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.
19For you know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before you.
19Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
20My 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.
20He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.
21They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.
21But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
22Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.
22The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
23Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.
23That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
24Pour out your wrath upon them, and let the fury of your anger take hold on them.
24They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
25Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:
25The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
26Because they persecuted him whom you have struck; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
26Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
27Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into your righteousness.
27There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.
28Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
29I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me.
29Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
30I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;
30Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
31and [this] shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.
31Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you⌃ shall live.
32Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:
33For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nothing his fettered ones.
33To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them.
34Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
35For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and [men] shall dwell there, and inherit it.
35O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.