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69.18 :And hide not Thy face from Thy servant;
 * For I am in distress; answer me speedily.
 * Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it;
 * Ransom me because of mine enemies.


 * Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion;
 * Mine adversaries are all before Thee.
 * Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am sore sick;
 * And I looked for some to show compassion, but there was none;
 * And for comforters, but I found none.
 * Yea, they put poison into my food;
 * And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.


 * Let their table before them become a snare;
 * And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.
 * Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not;
 * And make their loins continually to totter.
 * Pour out Thine indignation upon them,
 * And let the fierceness of Thine anger overtake them.
 * Let their encampment be desolate;
 * Let none dwell in their tents.
 * For they persecute him whom Thou hast smitten;
 * And they tell of the pain of those whom Thou hast wounded.
 * Add iniquity unto their iniquity;
 * And let them not come into Thy righteousness.
 * Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
 * And not be written with the righteous.
 * But I am afflicted and in pain;
 * Let Thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
 * I will praise the name of God with a song,
 * And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
 * And it shall please the better than a bullock
 * That hath horns and hoofs.
 * The humble shall see it, and be glad;
 * Ye that seek after God, let your heart revive.
 * For the hearkeneth unto the needy,
 * And despiseth not His prisoners.
 * Let heaven and earth praise Him,
 * The seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
 * For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah;
 * And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.
 * The seed also of His servants shall inherit it;
 * And they that love His name shall dwell therein.

For the Leader. [A Psalm] of David; to make memorial.


 * O God, to deliver me,
 * O, to help me, make haste.
 * Let them be ashamed and abashed
 * That seek after my soul;
 * Let them be turned backward and brought to confusion
 * That delight in my hurt.
 * Let them be turned back by reason of their shame
 * That say: 'Aha, aha.'
 * Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee;
 * And let such as love Thy salvation say continually:
 * 'Let God be magnified.'
 * But I am poor and needy,