Psalm 69:13-21
The righteous sufferer pleads for deliverance based on God’s unfailing love, trusting that God will answer at the right time and rescue from overwhelming affliction.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 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.
16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
17 Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
21 They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
The righteous sufferer pleads for deliverance based on God’s unfailing love, trusting that God will answer at the right time and rescue from overwhelming affliction.
To appeal to God’s covenant love as the only ground for deliverance while intensifying the plea for rescue amid deepening suffering and humiliation.
Zeal, Reproach, and the Saving God Who Rebuilds Zion
God hears the reproached sufferer who bears shame for His sake, judges wicked hostility, and turns affliction into praise and Zion hope.