Psalms 69:1
Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
Psalms 60:1God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
Psalms 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Isaiah 28:17I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
Lamentations 3:54Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
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 →