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Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
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God, God, save me! I'm in over my head,
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Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.
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Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
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Save me, O God, for the floodwaters are up to my neck.
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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.
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Quicksand under me, swamp water over me; I'm going down for the third time.
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I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.
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I sink in deep mire, Where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, Where the floods overflow me.
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Deeper and deeper I sink into the mire; I can't find a foothold to stand on. I am in deep water, and the floods overwhelm me.
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I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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I'm hoarse from calling for help, Bleary-eyed from searching the sky for God.
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I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
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I am weary with my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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I am exhausted from crying for help; my throat is parched and dry. My eyes are swollen with weeping, waiting for my God to help me.
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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.
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I've got more enemies than hairs on my head; Sneaks and liars are out to knife me in the back. What I never stole Must I now give back?
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Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.
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Those who hate me without a cause Are more than the hairs of my head; They are mighty who would destroy me, Being my enemies wrongfully; Though I have stolen nothing, I still must restore it.
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Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs on my head. These enemies who seek to destroy me are doing so without cause. They attack me with lies, demanding that I give back what I didn't steal.
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O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
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God, you know every sin I've committed; My life's a wide-open book before you.
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You know my folly, O God; my guilt is not hidden from you.
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O God, You know my foolishness; And my sins are not hidden from You.
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O God, you know how foolish I am; my sins cannot be hidden from you.
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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.
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Don't let those who look to you in hope Be discouraged by what happens to me, Dear Lord! GOD of the armies! Don't let those out looking for you Come to a dead end by following me--Please, dear God of Israel!
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May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord, the LORD Almighty; may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel.
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Let not those who wait for You, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed because of me; Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
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Don't let those who trust in you stumble because of me, O Sovereign LORD Almighty. Don't let me cause them to be humiliated, O God of Israel.
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Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
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Because of you I look like an idiot, I walk around ashamed to show my face.
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For I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face.
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Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face.
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For I am mocked and shamed for your sake; humiliation is written all over my face.
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I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
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My brothers shun me like a bum off the street; My family treats me like an unwanted guest.
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I am a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my own mother's sons;
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I have become a stranger to my brothers, And an alien to my mother's children;
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Even my own brothers pretend they don't know me; they treat me like a stranger.
Ps.69.9
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Ps.69.9
I love you more than I can say. Because I'm madly in love with you, They blame me for everything they dislike about you.
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for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
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Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
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Passion for your house burns within me, so those who insult you are also insulting me.
Ps.69.10
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
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When I poured myself out in prayer and fasting, All it got me was more contempt.
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When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;
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When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, That became my reproach.
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When I weep and fast before the LORD, they scoff at me.
Ps.69.11
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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When I put on a sad face, They treated me like a clown.
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when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.
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I also made sackcloth my garment; I became a byword to them.
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When I dress in sackcloth to show sorrow, they make fun of me.
Ps.69.12
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
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Now drunks and gluttons Make up drinking songs about me.
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Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.
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Those who sit in the gate speak against me, And I am the song of the drunkards.
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I am the favorite topic of town gossip, and all the drunkards sing about me.
Ps.69.13
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.
Ps.69.13
And me? I pray. GOD, it's time for a break! God, answer in love! Answer with your sure salvation!
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But I pray to you, O LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.
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But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, in the acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy, Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.
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But I keep right on praying to you, LORD, hoping this is the time you will show me favor. In your unfailing love, O God, answer my prayer with your sure salvation.
Ps.69.14
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.
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Rescue me from the swamp, Don't let me go under for good, Pull me out of the clutch of the enemy; This whirlpool is sucking me down.
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Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.
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Deliver me out of the mire, And let me not sink; Let me be delivered from those who hate me, And out of the deep waters.
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Pull me out of the mud; don't let me sink any deeper! Rescue me from those who hate me, and pull me from these deep waters.
Ps.69.15
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
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Don't let the swamp be my grave, the Black Hole Swallow me, its jaws clenched around me.
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Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.
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Let not the floodwater overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.
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Don't let the floods overwhelm me, or the deep waters swallow me, or the pit of death devour me.
Ps.69.16
Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
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Now answer me, GOD, because you love me; Let me see your great mercy full-face.
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Answer me, O LORD, out of the goodness of your love; in your great mercy turn to me.
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Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good; Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
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Answer my prayers, O LORD, for your unfailing love is wonderful. Turn and take care of me, for your mercy is so plentiful.
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And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
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Don't look the other way; your servant can't take it. I'm in trouble. Answer right now!
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Do not hide your face from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.
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And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in trouble; Hear me speedily.
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Don't hide from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in deep trouble!
Ps.69.18
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
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Come close, God; get me out of here. Rescue me from this deathtrap.
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Come near and rescue me; redeem me because of my foes.
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Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; Deliver me because of my enemies.
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Come and rescue me; free me from all my enemies.
Ps.69.19
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
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You know how they kick me around--Pin on me the donkey's ears, the dunce's cap.
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You know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed; all my enemies are before you.
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You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; My adversaries are all before You.
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You know the insults I endure--the humiliation and disgrace. You have seen all my enemies and know what they have said.
Ps.69.20
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.
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I'm broken by their taunts, Flat on my face, reduced to a nothing. I looked in vain for one friendly face. Not one. I couldn't find one shoulder to cry on.
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Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.
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Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
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Their insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. If only one person would show some pity; if only one would turn and comfort me.
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They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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They put poison in my soup, Vinegar in my drink.
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They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.
Ps.69.21
They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine to satisfy my thirst.
Ps.69.22
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Ps.69.22
Let their supper be bait in a trap that snaps shut; May their best friends be trappers who'll skin them alive.
Ps.69.22
May the table set before them become a snare; may it become retribution and a trap.
Ps.69.22
Let their table become a snare before them, And their well-being a trap.
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Let the bountiful table set before them become a snare, and let their security become a trap.
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Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
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Make them become blind as bats, Give them the shakes from morning to night.
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May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.
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Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see; And make their loins shake continually.
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Let their eyes go blind so they cannot see, and let their bodies grow weaker and weaker.
Ps.69.24
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Ps.69.24
Let them know what you think of them, Blast them with your red-hot anger.
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Pour out your wrath on them; let your fierce anger overtake them.
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Pour out Your indignation upon them, And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
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Pour out your fury on them; consume them with your burning anger.
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Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
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Burn down their houses, Leave them desolate with nobody at home.
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May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
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Let their dwelling place be desolate; Let no one live in their tents.
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May their homes become desolate and their tents be deserted.
Ps.69.26
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Ps.69.26
They gossiped about the one you disciplined, Made up stories about anyone wounded by God.
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For they persecute those you wound and talk about the pain of those you hurt.
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For they persecute the ones You have struck, And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.
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To those you have punished, they add insult to injury; they scoff at the pain of those you have hurt.
Ps.69.27
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
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Pile on the guilt, Don't let them off the hook.
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Charge them with crime upon crime; do not let them share in your salvation.
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Add iniquity to their iniquity, And let them not come into Your righteousness.
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Pile their sins up high, and don't let them go free.
Ps.69.28
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
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Strike their names from the list of the living; No rock-carved honor for them among the righteous.
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May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous.
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Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, And not be written with the righteous.
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Erase their names from the Book of Life; don't let them be counted among the righteous.
Ps.69.29
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
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I'm hurt and in pain; Give me space for healing, and mountain air.
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I am in pain and distress; may your salvation, O God, protect me.
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But I am poor and sorrowful; Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
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I am suffering and in pain. Rescue me, O God, by your saving power.
Ps.69.30
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
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Let me shout God's name with a praising song, Let me tell his greatness in a prayer of thanks.
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I will praise God's name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving.
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I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
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Then I will praise God's name with singing, and I will honor him with thanksgiving.
Ps.69.31
This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
Ps.69.31
For GOD, this is better than oxen on the altar, Far better than blue-ribbon bulls.
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This will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hoofs.
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This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bull, Which has horns and hooves.
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For this will please the LORD more than sacrificing an ox or presenting a bull with its horns and hooves.
Ps.69.32
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Ps.69.32
The poor in spirit see and are glad--Oh, you God--seekers, take heart!
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The poor will see and be glad- you who seek God, may your hearts live!
Ps.69.32
The humble shall see this and be glad; And you who seek God, your hearts shall live.
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The humble will see their God at work and be glad. Let all who seek God's help live in joy.
Ps.69.33
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Ps.69.33
For GOD listens to the poor, He doesn't walk out on the wretched.
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The LORD hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.
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For the LORD hears the poor, And does not despise His prisoners.
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For the LORD hears the cries of his needy ones; he does not despise his people who are oppressed.
Ps.69.34
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Ps.69.34
You heavens, praise him; praise him, earth; Also ocean and all things that swim in it.
Ps.69.34
Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and all that move in them,
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Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them.
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Praise him, O heaven and earth, the seas and all that move in them.
Ps.69.35
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
Ps.69.35
For God is out to help Zion, Rebuilding the wrecked towns of Judah. Guess who will live there--The proud owners of the land?
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for God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it;
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For God will save Zion And build the cities of Judah, That they may dwell there and possess it.
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For God will save Jerusalem and rebuild the towns of Judah. His people will live there and take possession of the land.
Ps.69.36
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
Ps.69.36
No, the children of his servants will get it, The lovers of his name will live in it. A David prayer
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the children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.
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Also, the descendants of His servants shall inherit it, And those who love His name shall dwell in it.
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The descendants of those who obey him will inherit the land, and those who love him will live there in safety.
