Psalm 69

New King James Version

An Urgent Plea for Help in Trouble

To the Chief Musician. Set to ^[a]“The Lilies.” A Psalm of David.

69 Save me, O God!
For ^(A)the waters have come up to my ^[b]neck.
²^(B)I sink in deep mire,
Where there is no standing;
I have come into deep waters,
Where the floods overflow me.
³^(C)I am weary with my crying;
My throat is dry;
^(D)My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁴Those who ^(E)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.

⁵O God, You know my foolishness;
And my sins are not hidden from You.
⁶Let not those who ^[c]wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me;
Let not those who seek You be ^[d]confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
⁷Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Shame has covered my face.
⁸^(F)I have become a stranger to my brothers,
And an alien to my mother’s children;
⁹^(G)Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
^(H)And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
¹⁰When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,
That became my reproach.
¹¹I also ^[e]made sackcloth my garment;
I became a byword to them.
¹²Those who ^[f]sit in the gate speak against me,
And I am the song of the ^(I)drunkards.

¹³But 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.
¹⁴Deliver 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.
¹⁵Let not the floodwater overflow me,
Nor let the deep swallow me up;
And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

¹⁶Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;
Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
¹⁷And do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in trouble;
Hear me speedily.
¹⁸Draw near to my soul, and redeem it;
Deliver me because of my enemies.

¹⁹You know ^(J)my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;
My adversaries are all before You.
²⁰Reproach has broken my heart,
And I am full of ^[g]heaviness;
^(K)I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none;
And for ^(L)comforters, but I found none.
²¹They also gave me gall for my food,
^(M)And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²^(N)Let their table become a snare before them,
And their well-being a trap.
²³^(O)Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see;
And make their loins shake continually.
²⁴^(P)Pour out Your indignation upon them,
And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
²⁵^(Q)Let their dwelling place be desolate;
Let no one live in their tents.
²⁶For they persecute the ones ^(R)You have struck,
And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.
²⁷^(S)Add iniquity to their iniquity,
^(T)And let them not come into Your righteousness.
²⁸Let them ^(U)be blotted out of the book of the living,
^(V)And not be written with the righteous.

²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful;
Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
³⁰^(W)I will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
³¹^(X)This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bull,
Which has horns and hooves.
³²^(Y)The humble shall see this and be glad;
And you who seek God, ^(Z)your hearts shall live.
³³For the Lord hears the poor,
And does not despise ^(AA)His prisoners.

³⁴^(AB)Let heaven and earth praise Him,
The seas ^(AC)and everything that moves in them.
³⁵^(AD)For God will save Zion
And build the cities of Judah,
That they may dwell there and possess it.
³⁶Also, ^(AE)the ^[h]descendants of His servants shall inherit it,
And those who love His name shall dwell in it.

Notas al pie

Psalm 69:1 Heb. Shoshannim
Psalm 69:1 Lit. soul
Psalm 69:6 Wait in faith
Psalm 69:6 dishonored
Psalm 69:11 Symbolic of sorrow
Psalm 69:12 Sit as judges
Psalm 69:20 Lit. sickness
Psalm 69:36 Lit. seed

1 Thessalonians 4

New King James Version

Plea for Purity

4 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus ^(A)that you should abound more and more, ^(B)just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; ²for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

³For this is ^(C)the will of God, ^(D)your sanctification: ^(E)that you should abstain from sexual immorality; ⁴^(F)that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵^(G)not in passion of lust, ^(H)like the Gentiles ^(I)who do not know God; ⁶that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord ^(J)is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. ⁷For God did not call us to uncleanness, ^(K)but in holiness. ⁸^(L)Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, ^(M)who^[a] has also given us His Holy Spirit.

A Brotherly and Orderly Life

⁹But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for ^(N)you yourselves are taught by God ^(O)to love one another; ¹⁰and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, ^(P)that you increase more and more; ¹¹that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, ^(Q)to mind your own business, and ^(R)to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, ¹²^(S)that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

The Comfort of Christ’s Coming

¹³But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen ^[b]asleep, lest you sorrow ^(T)as others ^(U)who have no hope. ¹⁴For ^(V)if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him ^(W)those who ^[c]sleep in Jesus.

¹⁵For this we say to you ^(X)by the word of the Lord, that ^(Y)we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are ^[d]asleep. ¹⁶For ^(Z)the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with ^(AA)the trumpet of God. ^(AB)And the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷^(AC)Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them ^(AD)in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus ^(AE)we shall always be with the Lord. ¹⁸^(AF)Therefore comfort one another with these words.