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Psalm 68 (69) Catholic Public Domain Version

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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 69 · About the recordings

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Psalm 68 in CPDV = Psalm 69 in WEB.

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WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David.
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2 Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul.
69:1 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
3 I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me.
69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
4 I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God.
69:3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
5 Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.
69:4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
6 O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.
69:5 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.
7 Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me.
69:6 Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
8 For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.
69:7 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
9 I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.
69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
10 For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me.
69:9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
11 And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.
69:10 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
12 And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.
69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
13 Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song.
69:12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
14 But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me.
69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
15 Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters.
69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
16 Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me.
69:15 Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
17 Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.
69:16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
18 And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.
69:17 Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
19 Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.
69:18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
20 You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.
69:19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
21 All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one.
69:20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
22 And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:21 They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
23 Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.
69:22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
24 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.
25 Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.
69:24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
26 May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.
69:25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
27 For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.
69:26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
28 Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.
69:27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
29 Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
30 I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.
69:29 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
31 I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
32 And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.
69:31 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
33 Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.
69:32 The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
34 For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.
69:33 For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
35 Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.
69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
36 For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance.
69:35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
37 And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.
69:36 The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
Cross references (37)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.

  1. 1 Psalm 69:14–15; Isaiah 43:2; Lamentations 3:54; Revelation 12:15–16; Revelation 17:15
  2. 2 Psalm 69:14–15; Isaiah 43:2; Lamentations 3:54; Revelation 12:15–16; Revelation 17:15
  3. 3 Psalm 40:2; Matthew 7:25; Jeremiah 38:6; Psalm 32:6; Psalm 88:6–7
  4. 4 Psalm 6:6; Psalm 119:82; Psalm 119:123; Isaiah 38:14; Deuteronomy 28:32
  5. 5 Psalm 35:19; John 15:25; Psalm 109:3–5; Psalm 35:11–12; Isaiah 53:4–7
  6. 6 Psalm 38:9; Jeremiah 16:17; Psalm 19:12; Psalm 17:3; Psalm 44:20–21
  7. 7 Psalm 25:3; Psalm 35:26; Luke 24:19–21; Isaiah 49:23; Psalm 72:18
  8. 8 Isaiah 50:6; Psalm 44:22; Jeremiah 15:15; Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 53:3
  9. 9 Psalm 31:11; John 7:5; John 1:11; Matthew 10:35–36; Psalm 38:11
  10. 10 Romans 15:3; John 2:14–17; Psalm 119:139; Mark 11:15–17; Psalm 89:41
  11. 11 Luke 7:33–34; Psalm 109:24–25; Psalm 102:8–9; Psalm 35:13
  12. 12 Job 17:6; 1 Kings 9:7; Jeremiah 24:9; Deuteronomy 28:37; Joel 1:8
  13. 13 Acts 4:26–27; Psalm 35:15–16; Matthew 27:41–42; Luke 23:2; Matthew 27:62–63
  14. 14 2 Corinthians 6:2; Isaiah 49:8; Psalm 55:16–17; Psalm 91:15; Isaiah 55:6
  15. 15 Psalm 144:7; Psalm 109:21; Jeremiah 38:6–13; Psalm 69:1–2; Lamentations 3:55
  16. 16 Revelation 12:15–16; Acts 2:24; Isaiah 43:1–2; Jonah 2:2–7; Psalm 16:10
  17. 17 Psalm 109:21; Psalm 25:16; Psalm 63:3; Micah 7:19; Psalm 106:45
  18. 18 Psalm 27:9; Psalm 102:2; Matthew 27:46; Psalm 143:9; Psalm 70:1
  19. 19 Psalm 111:9; Psalm 22:19; Psalm 22:1; Psalm 49:15; Psalm 10:1
  20. 20 Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 53:3; 1 Peter 2:23; Psalm 38:9; Psalm 2:2–4
  21. 21 Isaiah 63:5; Job 16:2; Psalm 142:4; Mark 14:50; Matthew 26:56
  22. 22 Matthew 27:34; Luke 23:36; Mark 15:23; Matthew 27:48; Mark 15:36
  23. 23 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Romans 11:8–10; 1 Peter 2:8; Isaiah 8:14–15; Proverbs 1:32
  24. 24 Daniel 5:6; Romans 11:10; Isaiah 6:9–10; 2 Corinthians 3:14; Jeremiah 30:6
  25. 25 Psalm 79:6; Hosea 5:10; Revelation 16:1; Luke 21:22; Deuteronomy 28:15–68
  26. 26 Acts 1:20; Matthew 23:38; Jeremiah 7:12–14; Isaiah 6:11; Luke 13:35
  27. 27 Isaiah 53:4; Zechariah 1:15; Mark 15:27–32; Isaiah 53:10; Zechariah 13:7
  28. 28 Isaiah 26:10; Nehemiah 4:5; Romans 1:28; Revelation 22:10–11; 2 Thessalonians 2:11–12
  29. 29 Exodus 32:32–33; Philippians 4:3; Luke 10:20; Ezekiel 13:9; Revelation 13:8
  30. 30 Psalm 91:14–16; Psalm 40:17; Psalm 70:5; Psalm 109:22; Philippians 2:9–11
  31. 31 Psalm 28:7; Psalm 34:3; Psalm 118:28–29; Psalm 40:1–3; Psalm 50:14
  32. 32 Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 50:13–14; 1 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 5:19–20; Psalm 50:23
  33. 33 John 16:22; Psalm 22:26; Isaiah 55:6–7; Psalm 34:2; Isaiah 61:1–3
  34. 34 Acts 5:18–19; Psalm 68:6; Zechariah 9:11–12; Revelation 2:10; Psalm 146:7
  35. 35 Isaiah 49:13; Psalm 150:6; Psalm 96:11; Isaiah 55:12; Psalm 148:1–14
  36. 36 Isaiah 44:26; Isaiah 46:13; Psalm 51:18; Obadiah 17; Psalm 48:11–13
  37. 37 Psalm 102:28; James 1:12; Acts 2:39; Psalm 37:29; John 14:23

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 69.

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXVIII)

    Of this Psalm, the title seemeth not to need operose discussion: for simple and easy it appeareth. For thus it standeth: "For the end, for David himself a Psalm of a Song." But in many Psalms already we have reminded you what is "at the end: for the end of the Law is Christ for righteousness to every man believing:" …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 69:31 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters XLVI–LII)

    For, says the elect David, "I will confess unto the Lord; and that will please Him more than a young bullock that hath horns and hoofs. Let the poor see it, and be glad." And again he saith, "Offer unto God the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows unto the Most High.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 69:25 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter XII)

    Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein; and, His bishoprick let another take;" --thus leading to the completion of the apostles, according to the words spoken by David.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  4. Quotes verse 69:32 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XX–XXI)

    For thus do men hear not with an intent to hear merely, but to act also. Seek the Lord, and your soul shall live, that the earth may bring forth the living soul.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  5. Quotes verse 69:21 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXXVI)

    … parted my garments," saith he, "among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots." And elsewhere again he saith, that they also offered Him vinegar; "For they gave me," saith He, "gall for my meat, and for my thirst they made me drink vinegar." So then the prophets, so many years before, speak of the hall of judgment, and …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)