Psalms 69:1
Save me, O God; for the waters are threatening my life.
Open English Bible (US)
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 waves of death broke about me, fearful floods of chaos.
Psalms 42:7Flood is calling to flood at the noise of your cataracts; all your waves and your breakers have passed over me.
Psalms 60:1O God, you have spurned and broken us, routing us in your wrath – restore us!
Psalms 69:14from sinking down in the mire. Lift me out of the deep deep waters,
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 →