The Eastern Cross/Bible/Psalms/Psalm 69

The Book of Psalms · the Psalter

Psalm 69

Psalm 70 in the KJV and most English Bibles

Tap Fathers under a verse to read what the saints said about it.

1

For the end, by David for a remembrance, that the Lord may save me.

Εἰς τὸ τέλος, τῷ Δαυὶδ εἰς ἀνάμνησιν, εἰς τὸ σῶσαί με Κύριον.

2

Draw nigh, O God, to my help.

Ὁ Θεὸς εἰς τὴν βοήθειάν μου πρόσχες.

3

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: Let them be turned backward and put to shame, that wish me evil.

Αἰσχυνθείησαν καὶ ἐντραπείησαν οἱ ζητοῦντες τὴν ψυχήν μου, ἀποστραφείησαν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, καὶ καταισχυνθείησαν οἱ βουλόμενοί μοι κατά·

4

Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately.

Ἀποστραφείησαν παραυτίκα αἰσχυνόμενοι οἱ λέγοντές μοι, εὖγε, εὖγε.

5

Let all that seek thee exult and be glad in thee: And let those that love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

Ἀγαλλιάσθωσαν καὶ εὐφρανθήτωσαν ἐπὶ σοὶ πάντες οἱ ζητοῦντές σε, καὶ λεγέτωσαν διαπαντὸς, μεγαλυνθήτω ὁ Θεὸς, οἱ ἀγαπῶντες τὸ σωτήριόν σου.

6

But I am poor and needy; O God, help me: Thou art my helper and deliverer, O Lord, delay not.

Ἐγὼ δὲ πτωχὸς καὶ πένης, ὁ Θεὸς βοήθησόν μοι· βοηθός μου, καὶ ῥύστης μου εἶ σὺ, Κύριε μὴ χρονίσῃς.

About these notes

Every note is a real passage, quoted word for word from a published English translation, with its source. Nothing here is summarised or written by us. Some verses have many notes and some have none, because the Fathers wrote more on some passages than others.

  • Blessed Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms, tr. A. Cleveland Coxe from the Oxford translation, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888).
  • Scripture: the Septuagint, in the translation of Sir Lancelot Brenton (1851), with spelling updated by Adam Boyd (2020); the Greek is Brenton's Septuagint text.

All of these translations are in the public domain. The passages were matched to their verses by the Historical Christian Commentaries project, which also hosts the full texts we link to. The Fathers are a treasury of the Church's mind, and they are best read alongside the life of the Church: if a passage raises a question, bring it to your priest.