Psalms 69:1
Save me, O God, For waters have entered as far as the life;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid;
Psalms 42:7Roaring deep unto roaring deep, is calling, at the voice of thy cataracts, All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, have passed.
Psalms 60:1O God, thou hast rejected us—hast scattered us, Thou hast been angry, Wilt thou restore us?
Psalms 69:14Rescue me out of the mire, lest I sink, Let me be rescued, From my haters, and, From abysses of waters:
Isaiah 28:17But I will make—Justice the line, and Righteousness the plummet,—And the hail shall, sweep away, your refuge of lying, And your hiding-place, the waters shall overflow;
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 →