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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.
1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also 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 melts 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. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
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 to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!
5O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you.
5A father of the fatherless, and a defender 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 sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
7For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face.
7God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
8I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.
8The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai— 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.
9You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.
10And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.
10Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
11And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.
11The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.
12They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.
12“Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder,
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.
13while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining 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 her, it snowed on Zalmon.
15Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.
15The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
16Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me.
16Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
17And turn not away your face from your servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.
17The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
18Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
19For you know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before you.
19Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is 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.
20God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
21They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.
21But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
22Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.
22The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,
23Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.
23that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”
24Pour out your wrath upon them, and let the fury of your anger take hold on them.
24They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
25Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:
25The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, among the ladies playing with tambourines,
26Because they persecuted him whom you have struck; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
26“Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”
27Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into your righteousness.
27There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, 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.
28Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.
29I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me.
29Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.
30I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;
30Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample under foot the bars of silver. Scatter the nations who 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 hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
32Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you⌃ shall live.
32Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord— Selah—
33For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nothing his fettered ones.
33to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
34Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them.
34Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.
35For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and [men] shall dwell there, and inherit it.
35You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!