Psalms 69:3
\69:2\My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
In Context
2\69:1\Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.
4\69:3\I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
Cross References
Job 11:20But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.
Psalms 6:6\6:5\For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
Psalms 22:2\22:1\My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
Psalms 25:21For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.
Psalms 40:3\40:2\He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.
Psalms 88:7\88:6\You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
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 →