Psalms 69:3
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: let them be turned backward and put to shame, that wish me evil.
Brenton Septuagint
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
2Draw nigh, O God, to my help.
4Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately.
Cross References
Job 11:20But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.
Psalms 6:6For in death no man remembers thee: and who will give thee thanks in Hades?
Psalms 22:2In a place of green grass, there he has made me dwell: he has nourished me by the water of rest.
Psalms 40:3May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.
Psalms 88:7For who in the + 88:7 Gr. clouds.heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of 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 →