Psalm 69, side by side
Two versions of the same chapter. Each row is one verse, so you can see how the wording changes.
1Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4Those 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.
4They 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.
5God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.
5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
6Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord the LORD of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
6Let 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.
7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13But as for me, my prayer is to you, the LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
13But 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.
14Deliver 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.
14Deliver 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.
15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16Answer me, the LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
20Reproach 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.
20Reproach 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.
21They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.
23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
27Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31It will please the LORD better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
31This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
33For the LORD hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
33For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
34Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
34Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
35For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
36The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
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