Psalms 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.
3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Cross References
Genesis 7:17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Psalms 32:6For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him.
Psalms 88:6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
Jeremiah 38:22behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah`s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon`s princes, and those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: [now that] thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.
Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
Matthew 26:37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore 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 →