Psalms 69:1
{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.
Darby Translation
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 bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.
Psalms 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
Psalms 60:1{To the chief Musician. On Shushan. Testimony. Michtam of David; to teach: when he strove with the Syrians of Mesopotamia, and the Syrians of Zobah, and Joab returned, and smote the Edomites in the valley of salt, twelve thousand.} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased: restore us again.
Psalms 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of waters.
Isaiah 28:17And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
Lamentations 3:54Waters streamed 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 →