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Psalms 69

1 The complaints, prayers, fervent zeal and great anguish of David is set forth as a figure of Christ and all his members: 21 The malicious crueltie of the enemies, 22 And their punishment also, 26 Where Judas and such traitors are accursed. 30 He gathereth courage in his affliction and offereth praises unto God, 32 Which are more acceptable then all sacrifices: whereof all the afflicted may take comfort. 35 Finally he doeth provoke all creatures to praises, prophecying of the kingdom of Christ, and the preservacion of the Church, where all the faithful, 37 And their seed shal dwell for ever.
¶ To him that excelleth upon aShoshannim.A Psalme of David.
1.Save me, ô God: for the bwaters are entred even to my soul.
2.I stick fast in the deep myre, where no cstaie is: I am come into deep waters, and the streams run over me.
3.I am weary of crying: my throat is dry: mine deyes fail, whiles I wait for my God.
4.They that hate me without a cause, are mo then the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, and are mine enemies efalsely, are mightie, so that I restored that which I ftook not.
5.O God, thou knowest my gfoolishness, and my fautes are not hid from thee.
6.Let not them that trust in thee, ô Lord God of hostes, be ashamed for hme: let not those that seek thee, be confounded through me, ô God of Israél.
7.For thy sake have I suffered reproof: shame hath covered my face.
8.I am become a stranger unto my brethren, even an aliant unto my mother’s sons.
9.iFor the zeal of thine house hath eaten me, and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen upon me.
10.I kwept and my soul fasted, but that was to my reproof.
11.I put on a sack also: and I became a proverb unto them.
12.They that lsat in the gate, spake of me, and the drunkards sang
13.But Lord, I make my prayer unto thee in an macceptable time, even in the multitude of thy mercie: ô God, hear me in the truth of thy salvation.
14.Deliver me out of the myre, that I sink not: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the ndeep waters.
15.Let not the waterflood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16.Hear me, ô Lord, for thy loving kindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
17.And ohide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: make haste and hear me.
18.Draw near unto my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19.Thou hast known my reproof & my shame, and my dishonour: all mine padversaries are before thee.
20.Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heaviness, and qI looked for some to have pity on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.
21.For they gave me gall in my meat, and in my thirst *they gave me vinegar to drink.
22.Let their rtable be a snare before them, and their prosperity ruin.
23.Let their eyes be blinded that they see not: and make their sloins alway to tremble.
24.Pour out thine anger upon them, and let thy wrathful displeasure take them.
25.*Let their thabitation be void, and let none dwell in their tents.
26.For they persecute him, whom thou hast smitten: and they add unto the sorrow of them, whom thou hast wounded.
27.Lay uiniquity upon their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28.Let them be put out of the xbook of life, neither let them be written with the righteous.
29.When I am poor and in heaviness, thine help, ô God, shal exalt me.
30.I will praise the Name of God with a song, and magnify him with thanksgiving.
31.This also shal please the Lord better then a yyoung bullock, that hath horns and hooves.
32.The humble shal see this, and they that seek God, shalbe glad, and your heart shal live.
33.For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his zprisoners.
34.Let heaven and earth praise him: the seas and all that moveth in them.
35.For God wil save Zión, and build the cities of Judáh, that men may dwell there and have it in possession.
36.The aseed also of his servants shal inherit it: and they that love his Name, shal dwell therein.

Notes

1-b.
David signifies by the waters, in what great dangers he was, out of the which God did deliver him.
2-c.
No firmitie or stableness to settle my feet.
3-d.
Though his senses failed him, yet his faith was constant and encouraged him still to pray.
4-e.
Condemning me guiltless.
4-f.
They judged me poor innocent as a thief and gave my goods to others as though I had stolen them.
5-g.
Though I be guilty to you ward, yet am I innocent toward them.
6-h.
Let not my evil entreaty of the enemies be an occasion, that the faithful fall from you.
9-i.
When I saw your enemies pretend your Name only in mouth, and in their life deny the same, your holy Spirit thrust me forward, to reprove them and defend your glory.
10-k.
My zeal moved me to lament and pray for my salvation.
12-l.
The more he sought to win them to God, the more they were against him both poor and rich.
13-m.
Knowing that albeit I suffer now trouble, yet you have a time, wherein you have appointed my deliverance.
14-n.
He shows a lively faith, in that that he assures himself, that God is favourable to him, when he seems to be angry: and at hand, when he seems to be far off.
17-o.
Not that he feared that God would not hear him, but that care made him to think that God differed long.
19-p.
You see that I am beset as a sheep among many wolves.
20-q.
He shows that it is in vain to put our trust in men in our great necessities, but that our comfort only depends of God: for man rather increases our sorrows, then diminishes them.
21-*.
John 19.29.
22-r.
He desires God to execute his judgements against the reprobate, which can not by any means be turned, Rom. 11.9.
23-s.
Take both judgement and power from them.
25-*.
Acts 1.20.
25-t.
Punish not only them, but their posterity, which shalbe like unto them.
27-u.
By their continuance and increasing in their sins let it be known that they be of the reprobate.
28-x.
They which seemed by their profession to have been written in your book, yet by their fruits prove the contrary, let them be known as reprobate.
31-y.
There is no sacrifice, which God more esteems, then thanksgiving for his benefits.
33-z.
For as he delivered his servant David, so will he do all that are in distress, and call upon him.
36-a.
Under the temporal promise of the land of Canaan he compre- hends the promise of life everlasting to the faithful and their posterity.