--- title: "Psalms 69 — World English Bible | Favorite Scriptures" description: "Read Psalms 69 in the World English Bible. Free Bible reading, no account needed. Browse books and chapters, then save favorite passages in your personal library." last_updated: "2026-10-08" doc_version: "1" language: "en" canonical: "https://favoritescriptures.com/bible/psalms/69" --- [Home](/)/[Bible](/bible)/[Psalms](/bible/psalms)/69 World English Bible # Psalms 69 [1](#verse-1) Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! [2](#verse-2) I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. [3](#verse-3) I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God. [4](#verse-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. [5](#verse-5) God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you. [6](#verse-6) Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord GOD of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel. [7](#verse-7) Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. [8](#verse-8) I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children. [9](#verse-9) For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. [10](#verse-10) When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. [11](#verse-11) When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. [12](#verse-12) Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards. [13](#verse-13) But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. [14](#verse-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. [15](#verse-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. [16](#verse-16) Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. [17](#verse-17) Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily! [18](#verse-18) Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies. [19](#verse-19) You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. [20](#verse-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. [21](#verse-21) They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. [22](#verse-22) Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. [23](#verse-23) Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent. [24](#verse-24) Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. [25](#verse-25) Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. [26](#verse-26) For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. [27](#verse-27) Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness. [28](#verse-28) Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. [29](#verse-29) But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me. [30](#verse-30) I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. [31](#verse-31) It will please the LORD better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs. [32](#verse-32) The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live. [33](#verse-33) For the LORD hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people. [34](#verse-34) Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein! [35](#verse-35) For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it. [36](#verse-36) The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein. [← Psalms 68](/bible/psalms/68)[Psalms 70 →](/bible/psalms/70) World English Bible · Public domain ## Keep what speaks to you. Create a free library to save passages, highlight verses, and keep your study notes together. [Start your free library](/login?mode=signup) ## Sitemap See the [complete sitemap](/sitemap.md).