Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 19, 2024

WORDS OF LIFE

Psalm 69:1-12

1 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.

2 I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold.
I have come into the deep waters; The floods engulf me.

3 I am worn out calling for help; My throat is parched.
My eyes fail, looking for my God.

4 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.

5 You, God, know my folly; My guilt is not hidden from you.

6 Lord, the Lord Almighty, may those who hope in you
not be disgraced because of me; God of Israel,
may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me.

7 For I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face.

8 I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother’s children;

9 For zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.

10 When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;

11 when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.

12 Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

— Psalm 69:1-12

  ‘I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face’