Psa 69:2-15 | ESV | STEP | I sink in deep mire , where there is no foothold ; I have come into deep waters , and the flood sweeps over me.

Psalms 69:2-15

2 I sink in deep ^amire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood ^bsweeps over me.
3 ^cI am weary with my crying out;
^dmy throat is parched.
^eMy eyes grow dim
with ^fwaiting for my God.
4 ^gMore in number than the hairs of my head
are ^hthose who hate me ⁱwithout cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
^jthose who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
must I now restore?
5 O God, you know my folly;
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
6 Let not those who hope in you ^kbe put to shame through me,
O Lord God of hosts;
let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,
O God of Israel.
7 For it is ^lfor your sake that I have borne reproach,
that dishonor has covered my face.
8 I have become ^ma stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
9 For ⁿzeal for your house has consumed me,
and ^othe reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10 When I wept and humbled ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks and humbled} my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
11 When I made ^qsackcloth my clothing,
I became ^ra byword to them.
12 I am the talk of those who ^ssit in the gate,
and the drunkards make ^tsongs about me.
13 But as for me, my ^uprayer is to you, O Lord.
At ^van acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
14 Deliver me
from sinking in ^wthe mire;
^xlet me be delivered from my enemies
and from ^ythe deep waters.
15 Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or ^zthe pit close ^aaits mouth over me.