Psalms 69:1
“For the leader of the music. Upon the Shoshannim. A psalm of David.” Save me, O God! For the waters press in to my very life!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
In Context
2I sink in deep mire, where is no standing; I have come into deep waters, and the waves flow over me.
Cross References
Psalms 18:4The snares of death encompassed me; The floods of destruction filled me with dismay;
Psalms 42:7Deep calleth for deep at the noise of thy waterfalls; All thy waves and billows have gone over me!
Psalms 60:1“For the leader of the music; upon the Shushan-Eduth; a psalm of David for instruction; when he was at strife with the Syrians of Mesopotamia, and the Syrians of Zoba; when Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand Edomites in the valley of Salt.” O God! thou hast forsaken us; thou hast broken us in pieces; Thou hast been angry! O revive us again!
Psalms 69:14Save me from the mire, and let me not sink; May I be delivered from my enemies,—from the deep waters!
Isaiah 28:17I will make justice a line, And righteousness a plummet, And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of falsehood, And the waters shall overwhelm its hiding-place;
Lamentations 3:54Waters flow over my head; I say, “I am undone!”
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 →