Psalms 69:2
\69:1\Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
1To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.
Cross References
Genesis 7:17And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
Psalms 32:6For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.
Psalms 88:6\88:5\My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
Jeremiah 38:22See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.
Jonah 2:6\2:5\The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
Matthew 26:37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.
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 →