Psalms 69:2
I sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Save me, O God, for the waters have come in to my soul.
3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Cross References
Genesis 7:17And the flood was forty days upon the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Psalms 32:6For this let everyone who is devout pray to thee in a time when thou may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach to him.
Psalms 88:6Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
Jeremiah 38:22Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's rulers. And those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have set upon thee, and have prevailed over thee. [Since] thy f
Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars [closed] upon me forever. Yet thou have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
Matthew 26:37And having taken Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and distressed.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:2-13
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins… Read the whole commentary →