Psalms 69:2
SAVE me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.
Cross References
Genesis 7:17And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from earth.
Psalms 32:6For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.
Psalms 88:6free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.
Jeremiah 38:22Behold all the women that are left in the house of the king of Juda, shall be brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon: and they shall say: Thy men of peace have deceived thee, and have prevailed against thee, they have plunged thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery place, and they have departed from thee.
Jonah 2:6The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.
Matthew 26:37And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad.
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 →