Psalms 69:3
May those who seek my soul be confounded and awed.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
2O God, reach out to help me. O Lord, hasten to assist me.
Cross References
Job 11:20But the eyes of the impious will fade away, and the path to escape will perish before them, for the abomination of the soul is their hope.
Psalms 6:6For there is no one in death who would be mindful of you. And who will confess to you in Hell?
Psalms 22:2He has settled me here, in a place of pasture. He has led me out to the water of refreshment.
Psalms 40:3May the Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth. And may he not hand him over to the will of his adversaries.
Psalms 88:7For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?
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 →