{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Psalms",
 "chapter": 69,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "[To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.] Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners."
  },
  {
   "v": 34,
   "t": "Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein."
  },
  {
   "v": 35,
   "t": "For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession."
  },
  {
   "v": 36,
   "t": "The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein."
  }
 ],
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