Psalms 69:1
Save me, O God, for the waters have come in to my soul.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.
Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of thy waterfalls. All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
Psalms 60:1O God thou have cast us off. Thou have broken us down. Thou have been angry. O restore us again.
Psalms 69:14Deliver 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.
Isaiah 28:17And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet. And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
Lamentations 3:54Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:1
David penned this psalm when he was in affliction; and in it, I. He complains of the great distress and trouble he was in and earnestly begs of God to relieve and succour him, ver. 1-21 . II. He imprecates the judgments of God upon his persecutors, ver. 22-29 . III. He concludes with the voice of joy and praise, in an assurance that God would help and succour him, and would do well for the church, ver. 30-36 . Now, in this, David was a type of Christ, and divers passages in this psalm are applied to Christ in the… Read the whole commentary →