Psalm 68 (69) Clementine Vulgate
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 69 · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Psalms follow the Greek/Latin numbering.
Psalm 68 in VUL = Psalm 69 in WEB.
1 In finem, pro iis qui commutabuntur. David.
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2 [Salvum me fac, Deus, quoniam intraverunt aquæ usque ad animam meam.
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 Infixus sum in limo profundi et non est substantia. Veni in altitudinem maris, et tempestas demersit 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 Laboravi clamans, raucæ factæ sunt fauces meæ; defecerunt oculi mei, dum spero in Deum meum.
69:3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
5 Multiplicati sunt super capillos capitis mei qui oderunt me gratis. Confortati sunt qui persecuti sunt me inimici mei injuste; quæ non rapui, tunc exsolvebam.
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 Deus, tu scis insipientiam meam; et delicta mea a te non sunt abscondita.
69:5 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.
7 Non erubescant in me qui exspectant te, Domine, Domine virtutum; non confundantur super me qui quærunt te, Deus Israël.
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 Quoniam propter te sustinui opprobrium; operuit confusio faciem meam.
69:7 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
9 Extraneus factus sum fratribus meis, et peregrinus filiis matris meæ.
69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
10 Quoniam zelus domus tuæ comedit me, et opprobria exprobrantium tibi ceciderunt super me.
69:9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
11 Et operui in jejunio animam meam, et factum est in opprobrium mihi.
69:10 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
12 Et posui vestimentum meum cilicium; et factus sum illis in parabolam.
69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
13 Adversum me loquebantur qui sedebant in porta, et in me psallebant qui bibebant vinum.
69:12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
14 Ego vero orationem meam ad te, Domine; tempus beneplaciti, Deus. In multitudine misericordiæ tuæ, exaudi me in veritate salutis tuæ.
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 Eripe me de luto, ut non infigar; libera me ab iis qui oderunt me, et de profundis aquarum.
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 Non me demergat tempestas aquæ, neque absorbeat me profundum, neque urgeat super me puteus os suum.
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 Exaudi me, Domine, quoniam benigna est misericordia tua; secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum respice in me.
69:16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
18 Et ne avertas faciem tuam a puero tuo; quoniam tribulor, velociter exaudi me.
69:17 Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
19 Intende animæ meæ, et libera eam; propter inimicos meos, eripe me.
69:18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
20 Tu scis improperium meum, et confusionem meam, et reverentiam meam;
69:19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
21 in conspectu tuo sunt omnes qui tribulant me. Improperium exspectavit cor meum et miseriam: et sustinui qui simul contristaretur, et non fuit; et qui consolaretur, et non inveni.
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 Et dederunt in escam meam fel, et in siti mea potaverunt me aceto.
69:21 They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
23 Fiat mensa eorum coram ipsis in laqueum, et in retributiones, et in scandalum.
69:22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
24 Obscurentur oculi eorum, ne videant, et dorsum eorum semper incurva.
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.
25 Effunde super eos iram tuam, et furor iræ tuæ comprehendat eos.
69:24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
26 Fiat habitatio eorum deserta, et in tabernaculis eorum non sit qui inhabitet.
69:25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
27 Quoniam quem tu percussisti persecuti sunt, et super dolorem vulnerum meorum addiderunt.
69:26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
28 Appone iniquitatem super iniquitatem eorum, et non intrent in justitiam tuam.
69:27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
29 Deleantur de libro viventium, et cum justis non scribantur.
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
30 Ego sum pauper et dolens; salus tua, Deus, suscepit me.
69:29 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
31 Laudabo nomen Dei cum cantico, et magnificabo eum in laude:
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
32 et placebit Deo super vitulum novellum, cornua producentem et ungulas.
69:31 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
33 Videant pauperes, et lætentur; quærite Deum, et vivet anima vestra:
69:32 The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
34 quoniam exaudivit pauperes Dominus, et vinctos suos non despexit.
69:33 For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
35 Laudent illum cæli et terra; mare, et omnia reptilia in eis.
69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
36 Quoniam Deus salvam faciet Sion, et ædificabuntur civitates Juda, et inhabitabunt ibi, et hæreditate acquirent eam.
69:35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
37 Et semen servorum ejus possidebit eam; et qui diligunt nomen ejus habitabunt in ea.]
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 VUL.
- 1 Psalm 69:14–15; Isaiah 43:2; Lamentations 3:54; Revelation 12:15–16; Revelation 17:15
- 2 Psalm 69:14–15; Isaiah 43:2; Lamentations 3:54; Revelation 12:15–16; Revelation 17:15
- 3 Psalm 40:2; Matthew 7:25; Jeremiah 38:6; Psalm 32:6; Psalm 88:6–7
- 4 Psalm 6:6; Psalm 119:82; Psalm 119:123; Isaiah 38:14; Deuteronomy 28:32
- 5 Psalm 35:19; John 15:25; Psalm 109:3–5; Psalm 35:11–12; Isaiah 53:4–7
- 6 Psalm 38:9; Jeremiah 16:17; Psalm 19:12; Psalm 17:3; Psalm 44:20–21
- 7 Psalm 25:3; Psalm 35:26; Luke 24:19–21; Isaiah 49:23; Psalm 72:18
- 8 Isaiah 50:6; Psalm 44:22; Jeremiah 15:15; Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 53:3
- 9 Psalm 31:11; John 7:5; John 1:11; Matthew 10:35–36; Psalm 38:11
- 10 Romans 15:3; John 2:14–17; Psalm 119:139; Mark 11:15–17; Psalm 89:41
- 11 Luke 7:33–34; Psalm 109:24–25; Psalm 102:8–9; Psalm 35:13
- 12 Job 17:6; 1 Kings 9:7; Jeremiah 24:9; Deuteronomy 28:37; Joel 1:8
- 13 Acts 4:26–27; Psalm 35:15–16; Matthew 27:41–42; Luke 23:2; Matthew 27:62–63
- 14 2 Corinthians 6:2; Isaiah 49:8; Psalm 55:16–17; Psalm 91:15; Isaiah 55:6
- 15 Psalm 144:7; Psalm 109:21; Jeremiah 38:6–13; Psalm 69:1–2; Lamentations 3:55
- 16 Revelation 12:15–16; Acts 2:24; Isaiah 43:1–2; Jonah 2:2–7; Psalm 16:10
- 17 Psalm 109:21; Psalm 25:16; Psalm 63:3; Micah 7:19; Psalm 106:45
- 18 Psalm 27:9; Psalm 102:2; Matthew 27:46; Psalm 143:9; Psalm 70:1
- 19 Psalm 111:9; Psalm 22:19; Psalm 22:1; Psalm 49:15; Psalm 10:1
- 20 Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 53:3; 1 Peter 2:23; Psalm 38:9; Psalm 2:2–4
- 21 Isaiah 63:5; Job 16:2; Psalm 142:4; Mark 14:50; Matthew 26:56
- 22 Matthew 27:34; Luke 23:36; Mark 15:23; Matthew 27:48; Mark 15:36
- 23 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Romans 11:8–10; 1 Peter 2:8; Isaiah 8:14–15; Proverbs 1:32
- 24 Daniel 5:6; Romans 11:10; Isaiah 6:9–10; 2 Corinthians 3:14; Jeremiah 30:6
- 25 Psalm 79:6; Hosea 5:10; Revelation 16:1; Luke 21:22; Deuteronomy 28:15–68
- 26 Acts 1:20; Matthew 23:38; Jeremiah 7:12–14; Isaiah 6:11; Luke 13:35
- 27 Isaiah 53:4; Zechariah 1:15; Mark 15:27–32; Isaiah 53:10; Zechariah 13:7
- 28 Isaiah 26:10; Nehemiah 4:5; Romans 1:28; Revelation 22:10–11; 2 Thessalonians 2:11–12
- 29 Exodus 32:32–33; Philippians 4:3; Luke 10:20; Ezekiel 13:9; Revelation 13:8
- 30 Psalm 91:14–16; Psalm 40:17; Psalm 70:5; Psalm 109:22; Philippians 2:9–11
- 31 Psalm 28:7; Psalm 34:3; Psalm 118:28–29; Psalm 40:1–3; Psalm 50:14
- 32 Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 50:13–14; 1 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 5:19–20; Psalm 50:23
- 33 John 16:22; Psalm 22:26; Isaiah 55:6–7; Psalm 34:2; Isaiah 61:1–3
- 34 Acts 5:18–19; Psalm 68:6; Zechariah 9:11–12; Revelation 2:10; Psalm 146:7
- 35 Isaiah 49:13; Psalm 150:6; Psalm 96:11; Isaiah 55:12; Psalm 148:1–14
- 36 Isaiah 44:26; Isaiah 46:13; Psalm 51:18; Obadiah 17; Psalm 48:11–13
- 37 Psalm 102:28; James 1:12; Acts 2:39; Psalm 37:29; John 14:23
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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).
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:" …
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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.
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.
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)
… 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)