Psalms 69

Verse 1

WEB For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

KJV To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

TSK Shoshannim: ps 45:1, ps 60:1, ps 80:1; the waters: ps 69:2,14,15, ps 18:4, ps 42:7, isa 28:17, isa 43:2, la 3:54, jon 2:3-5, re 12:15,16, re 17:15

Verse 2

WEB I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

KJV I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

TSK I sink: ps 40:2, jer 38:6,22; deep mire: ps 88:6,7, eze 27:26-34; the floods: ps 32:6, ge 7:17-23, mt 7:25, mt 26:37,38

Verse 3

WEB I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

KJV I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

TSK I am: ps 6:6, ps 13:1-3, ps 22:2, heb 5:7; my throat: ps 69:21, ps 22:15, joh 19:28; mine: ps 119:82,123, de 28:32, job 11:20, job 16:16, isa 38:14, la 2:11; I wait: ps 25:21, ps 39:7

Verse 4

WEB 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.

KJV 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.

TSK hate: joh 15:25, 1pe 2:22; more than: ps 40:12; being: ps 7:3-5, ps 35:12,19, ps 38:19,20, ps 109:3-5; then I: isa 53:4-7, 2co 5:21, 1pe 2:24, 1pe 3:18

Verse 5

WEB God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

KJV O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

TSK and my sins: ps 17:3, ps 19:12, ps 44:20,21; hid: ps 38:9, jer 16:17

Verse 6

WEB 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.

KJV 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.

TSK Let not: ps 7:7, ps 25:3, ps 35:26, isa 49:23, lu 24:19-21, ac 4:7; O God of Israel: ps 72:18, 2sa 23:3, ac 13:17,23

Verse 7

WEB Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

KJV Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

TSK Because: ps 22:6-8, ps 44:22, jer 15:15, joh 15:21-24; shame: isa 50:6, isa 53:3, mt 26:67,68, mt 27:29,30,38-44, lu 23:11,35-37, heb 12:2

Verse 8

WEB I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

KJV I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

TSK become: ps 31:11, job 19:13-19, mt 26:48-50,56,70-74, joh 1:11, joh 7:5; and an alien: 1sa 17:28, mic 7:5,6, mt 10:21,22,35,36

Verse 9

WEB For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

KJV For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

TSK zeal: ps 119:139, 1ki 19:10, 1ch 15:27-29, 1ch 29:3, mr 11:15-17, joh 2:14-17; and the: ps 89:50,51, ro 15:3

Verse 10

WEB When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

KJV When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

TSK When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.: ps 102:8,9, ps 109:24,25, lu 7:33,34

Verse 11

WEB When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

KJV I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

TSK I made: ps 35:13,14, isa 20:2, isa 22:12, joe 1:8,13; I became: ps 44:13,14, de 28:37, 1ki 9:7, jer 24:9

Verse 12

WEB Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

KJV They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

TSK They: de 16:18, mt 27:12,13,20,41,42,62,63, lu 23:2, ac 4:26,27; I was: ps 35:15,16, job 30:8,9, mr 15:17-19; drunkards: da 5:2-4,23

Verse 13

WEB 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.

KJV 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.

TSK my prayer: ps 55:16,17, ps 91:15, mt 26:36-46, lu 22:44, joh 17:1-26, heb 5:7, 1pe 2:23; in an: 1sa 25:8, es 5:2,6, es 7:2, isa 49:8, isa 55:6, 2co 6:2; in the: ps 40:10,11, ps 98:3, ge 24:27, mic 7:20, lu 1:72, ac 13:32,33, ro 15:8,9

Verse 14

WEB 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.

KJV 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.

TSK Deliver: ps 40:1-3, jer 38:6-13, la 3:55; let me: ps 25:18,19, ps 35:19, ps 109:3,21, lu 19:14,27, ac 5:30,31; out of: ps 69:1,2,15, ps 42:7, ps 124:4,5, ps 144:7, mr 14:34-42, mr 15:34

Verse 15

WEB 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.

KJV Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

TSK waterflood: isa 43:1,2, jon 2:2-7, mt 12:40, re 12:15,16; pit: ps 16:10, ps 88:4-6, nu 16:33,34, ac 2:24,31

Verse 16

WEB Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

KJV Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

TSK for thy: ps 36:7, ps 63:3, ps 109:21; turn: ps 25:16, ps 26:11, ps 86:15,16, mic 7:19; according: ps 69:13, ps 51:1, isa 63:7

Verse 17

WEB Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

KJV And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

TSK hide: ps 13:1, ps 22:24, ps 27:9, ps 44:24, ps 102:2, ps 143:9, mt 27:46; for I am: mt 26:38; hear me speedily: ps 40:13, ps 70:1, job 7:21

Verse 18

WEB Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

KJV Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

TSK Draw: ps 10:1, ps 22:1,19, jer 14:8; redeem: ps 31:5, ps 111:9, job 6:23; because: de 32:27, jos 7:9

Verse 19

WEB You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

KJV Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

TSK my reproach: ps 69:7-9, ps 22:6,7, isa 53:3, heb 12:2, 1pe 2:23; dishonour: joh 8:49; mine: ps 2:2-4, ps 38:9

Verse 20

WEB 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.

KJV 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.

TSK Reproach: ps 42:10, ps 123:4, heb 11:36; I am: ps 42:6, mt 26:37,38, joh 12:27; I looked: isa 63:5, mr 14:37,50; but there: ps 142:4, joh 16:32, 2ti 4:16,17; comforters: job 16:2, job 19:21,22, mt 26:56

Verse 21

WEB They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

KJV They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

TSK gall for my meat: jer 8:14, jer 9:15, jer 23:15, mt 27:34,48; vinegar: mr 15:23,36, lu 23:36, joh 19:29,30

Verse 22

WEB Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

KJV Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

TSK Let their table, etc.: pr 1:32, mal 2:2, ro 11:8-10; a trap: isa 8:14,15, 1pe 2:8

Verse 23

WEB Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

KJV Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

TSK Their eyes: isa 6:9,10, isa 29:9,10, mt 13:14,15, joh 12:39,40, ac 28:26,27, ro 11:25, 2co 3:14; make their: de 28:65-67, isa 21:3,4, jer 30:6, da 5:6, ro 11:10

Verse 24

WEB Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

KJV Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

TSK Pour: ps 79:6, le 26:14-46, de 28:15-68, de 29:18-28, de 31:17, de 32:20-26, ho 5:10, mt 23:35-37, lu 21:22, 1th 2:15,16, re 16:1; take: ex 15:15, isa 13:8, zec 1:6

Verse 25

WEB Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

KJV Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

TSK Let their: 1ki 9:8, jer 7:12-14, mt 23:38, mt 24:1,2, ac 1:20; habitation: isa 5:1, isa 6:11

Verse 26

WEB For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

KJV For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

TSK For: ps 109:16, 2ch 28:9, job 19:21,22, zec 1:15, 1th 2:15; whom: isa 53:4,10, zec 13:7; they talk: mr 15:28-32

Verse 27

WEB Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.

KJV Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

TSK Add: ps 81:12, ex 8:15,32, ex 9:12, le 26:39, isa 5:6, mt 21:19, mt 23:31,32, mt 27:4,5, ro 1:28, ro 9:18, 2th 2:11,12, re 22:10,11; iniquity: ps 109:17-19, 2ti 4:14; let them: ps 24:5, isa 26:10, ro 9:31, ro 10:2,3

Verse 28

WEB Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

KJV Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

TSK blotted: ex 32:32,33, isa 65:16, ho 1:9, re 3:5, re 22:19; be written: isa 4:3, eze 13:9, lu 10:20, php 4:3, heb 12:23, re 13:8, re 20:12-15

Verse 29

WEB But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

KJV But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

TSK I am poor: ps 40:17, ps 109:22,31, isa 53:2,3, mt 8:20, 2co 8:9; let thy: ps 18:48, ps 22:27-31, ps 89:26,27, ps 91:14-16, eph 1:21,22, php 2:9-11

Verse 30

WEB I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

KJV I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

TSK I will: ps 28:7, ps 40:1-3, ps 118:21,28,29; magnify: ps 34:3

Verse 31

WEB It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

KJV This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

TSK also shall: ps 50:13,14,23, ho 14:2, eph 5:19,20, heb 13:15, 1pe 2:5

Verse 32

WEB The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

KJV The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

TSK The humble: ps 25:9, ps 34:2, isa 61:1-3, joh 16:22, joh 20:20; your heart: ps 22:26,29, isa 55:6,7

Verse 33

WEB For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

KJV For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

TSK the Lord: ps 10:17, ps 34:6, ps 72:12-14, ps 102:17,20, isa 66:2, lu 4:18; his prisoners: ps 107:10, ps 146:7, zec 9:11,12, ac 5:18,19, ac 12:4-11, eph 3:1, re 2:10

Verse 34

WEB Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!

KJV Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

TSK Let: ps 96:11, ps 98:7,8, ps 148:1-14, ps 150:6, isa 44:22,23, isa 49:13, isa 55:12, re 7:11-13; moveth: ge 1:20

Verse 35

WEB For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

KJV For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

TSK God: ps 51:18, ps 102:13,16, ps 147:12,13, isa 14:32, isa 44:26, isa 46:13, re 14:1; build: ps 48:11-13, eze 36:35,36, jer 33:10,11

Verse 36

WEB The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

KJV The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

TSK The seed: ps 90:16,17, ps 102:28, isa 44:3,4, isa 61:9, ac 2:39; they: ps 91:14, joh 14:23, ro 8:28, jas 1:12, jas 2:5, re 21:27