--- title: "Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5" author: "John Calvin" translator: "James Anderson" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 88 of 159 url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/88/ cite: "John Calvin, tr. James Anderson, Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5, section 88. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/88/" --- # Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5 *John Calvin, tr. James Anderson* Calvin on the Psalms, volume 5 of 5. ## 88. Psalm 69 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/88/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/88/#p-N [¶0] To the Chief Musician upon Shoshannim. Of David [¶1] 1 Save me, O God! For entered have the waters even to my soul. [¶2] 2 I am sunk into deep mire where there is no standing place; I am come into the depths of waters, And the floods of water have overflowed me. [¶3] 3 I am weary with crying, Hoarse is my throat become therewith; Failed have my eyes with waiting for my God. [¶4] 4 More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause: Increased are those who desire to destroy me, [even] my lying adversaries: That which I took not by violence, then I restored it. [¶5] 5 O God! thou knowest my foolishness, And my faults from thee are not hidden. [¶6] 6 Let not those be ashamed in me that wait for thee, O Lord, Jehovah of armies! Let not those be put to shame in me who seek thee, O God of Israel! [¶7] 7 For on thy account I have suffered reproach; Shame hath covered my face. [¶8] 8 A stranger I have been to my brethren, And an alien I am become to the children of my mother. [¶9] 9 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of those who reproached thee have fallen upon me. [¶10] 10 And I wept, my soul fasted; And that was for a reproach to me. [¶11] 11 And I made my garment sackcloth; And I was to them for a jest. [¶12] 12 Defame me do those who sit in the gate; And I am the songs of those who drink intoxicating liquor. [¶13] 13 But as for me my prayer [is] to thee, O Jehovah! In the time of thy favor, O God! In the multitude of thy mercy answer me, In the truth of thy salvation. [¶14] 14 Rescue me from the mire that I may not sink; That I may be delivered from my adversaries, And from the depths of waters. [¶15] 15 Let not the flood of waters overflow me; And let not the deep swallow me up; And let not the pit dose its mouth upon me. [¶16] 16 Answer me, O Jehovah! for good is thy mercy: In the multitude of thy compassions look upon me. [¶17] 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am afflicted: Hasten! answer me! [¶18] 18 Draw near to my soul, redeem it: On account of my adversaries deliver me. [¶19] 19 Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my ignominy: Before thee are all my adversaries. [¶20] 20 Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am afflicted; And I looked for some one to show compassion, but there was none; For comforters, but I found them not. [¶21] 21 And they put into my meat gall, And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. [¶22] 22 Let their table be before them for a snare; And their prosperity for a net; [¶23] 23 Darkened let be their eyes, that they may not see; And cause their loins continually to tremble. [¶24] 24 Pour out upon them thy wrath; And let the fury of thy indignation take hold of them. [¶25] 25 Let their palace be desolate; In their tents let there not be a dweller. [¶26] 26 For him whom thou hast smitten they have persecuted; And to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded they have added. [¶27] 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity; And let them not enter into thy righteousness. [¶28] 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; And with the righteous let them not be written. [¶29] 29 But as for me I am poor and sorrowful: Thy salvation shall exalt me. [¶30] 30 I will praise the name of God in a song, And I will magnify him with thanksgiving. [¶31] 31 And this will please Jehovah More than a young bullock that hath horns and hoofs. [¶32] 32 Seen it have the afflicted, And they shall rejoice at it who seek God; And live shall your heart. [¶33] 33 For hearkened hath Jehovah to the afflicted; And his prisoners he hath not despised. [¶34] 34 Praise him let heaven and earth; The seas and whatever creepeth in them. [¶35] 35 For God will save Zion, And will build the cities of Judah; And they shall dwell there, And possess it by inheritance. [¶36] 36 And the seed of his servants shall inherit it; And they who love his name shall dwell in it.