---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 69
verse_count: 36
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 69, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 69

*David's affliction His prayer for deliverance. To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.*

**1** Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
**2** I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
**3** I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
**4** 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.
**5** O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
**6** 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.
**7** Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
**8** I am become a stranger unto my' brethren, and an alien anto my mother's children.
**9** For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
**10** When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
**11** I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
**12** They that sit in the gate speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.
**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.
**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.
**15** Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
**16** Hear me, O Lord; for thy loving-kindness is good; turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
**17** And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.
**18** Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of mine enemies.
**19** Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour; mine adversaries are all before thee.
**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.
**21** They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
**22** Let their table become a snare before them; and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
**23** Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
**24** Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
**25** Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
**26** For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
**27** Add iniquity unto their iniquity; and let them not come into thy righteousness.
**28** Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
**29** But I am poor and sorrowful; let thy salvation, O God, set me upon high.
**30** I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
**31** This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
**32** The humble shall see this, and be glad; and your heart shall live that seek God.
**33** For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
**34** Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
**35** For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
**36** The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.