Psalms 69:14

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you.

He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

What will you say, when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”

the men, and the women, and the children, and the king’s daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;

When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

When they came to a place called “Golgotha”, that is to say, “The place of a skull,”

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”