### Douay Rheims Bible

Psalms 67

## The Book of Psalms

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| # Chapter 68
#### 1 | Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.
#### 2 | SAVE me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.
#### 3 | I stick fast in the mire of the deep: and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.
#### 4 | I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.
#### 5 | They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.
#### 6 | O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:
#### 7 | Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.
#### 8 | Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
#### 9 | I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.
#### 10 | For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
#### 11 | And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.
#### 12 | And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.
#### 13 | They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.
#### 14 | But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
#### 15 | Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
#### 16 | Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
#### 17 | Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
#### 18 | And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.
#### 19 | Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.
#### 20 | Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.
#### 21 | In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.
#### 22 | And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
#### 23 | Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.
#### 24 | Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.
#### 25 | Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
#### 26 | Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.
#### 27 | Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
#### 28 | Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.
#### 29 | Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.
#### 30 | But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.
#### 31 | I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.
#### 32 | And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.
#### 33 | Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
#### 34 | For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.
#### 35 | Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.
#### 36 | For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.
#### 37 | And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalms 69

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