Revised Version 1885

Psalms 69:3-14 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

3. I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

4. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

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

6. Let not them that wait on thee be ashamed through me, O Lord GODof hosts: let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonour through me, O God of Israel.

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

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

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

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

11. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb unto them.

12. They that sit in the gate talk of me; and I am the song of the drunkards.

13. But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, answer me in the truth of thy salvation.

14. 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.