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