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To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
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.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
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.
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.
Let not the waterflood ° overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
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.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

69:4 without a cause. This was fulfilled most specifically in Jesus Christ, as He asserted in John 15:25 (note also Psalm 35:19). It continues to be fulfilled today as multitudes hate Him and would destroy His followers if they could.


69:5 my sins. The Messiah of whom this psalm is prophesying had no sins of His own, of course, but He willingly took “our sins in His own body” and was made “sin for us” (I Peter 2:24; II Corinthians 5:21).


69:8 stranger unto my brethren. This is a prophecy often fulfilled in the lives of those who yield their hearts unreservedly to Christ, but most specifically fulfilled in the unbelief of Christ’s own human siblings. Note John 7:3-5. Also note the psalm speaks of “my mother’s children,” since Christ had no human father.


69:9 eaten me up. Cited in John 2:17, in reference to Christ’s purging of the temple, an act which certainly incurred the wrath of the religious leaders who were desecrating the temple with their covetousness.


69:9 fallen upon me. This verse is quoted and applied to Christ by Paul in Romans 15:3.


69:21 in my thirst. This was fulfilled when Christ spoke on the cross of His thirst, being careful to fulfill everything that the prophets had written (John 19:28-30). The entire 69th psalm depicts His grief and humiliation.


69:22 table become a snare. Psalm 69:22,

23, is cited by Paul in Romans 11:9,10, as having been fulfilled in Israel when that nation rejected Christ.


69:25 habitation be desolate. A prophecy repeated and enlarged by Christ (Matthew 23:38), precursively fulfilled in Judas (Acts 1:20), and fully implemented in the destruction of Jerusalem and the worldwide dispersion of those who had Him crucified.


69:28 book of the living. This “book of the living” is undoubtedly equivalent to “the book of life,” as it is called in the New Testament (Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:5; 20:15; 22:19).


69:34 heaven and earth praise him. God’s marvelous creation is, in its beauty and complexity, always giving a testimony of praise to its Creator, at least for those with spiritual eyes and ears to hear and see it. Note also Psalm 19:1; 96:11-13; 145:10; 148:3-10; 150:6. Jesus said on one occasion that if men should refuse to praise Him, “the stones would immediately cry out” (Luke 19:40).


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