Psalms 69:14
12 Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
13 But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
15 Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
- KJV
- Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
- WEB
- Deliver 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.
- ASV
- Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
- DARBY
- Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of waters.
- BLB
- Deliver me from the mire, that I should not sink! May I be delivered from those hating me, and out of the depths of the waters.
- ÅB
- Redd meg ut av dyndet og la meg ikke synke! La meg bli reddet fra dem som hater meg, og fra de dype vann!
- OTB
- Fri meg fra gjørmen og la meg ikke synke;
Måtte jeg bli reddet fra dem som hater meg, og fra dypet av vannet. - B1930
- Redd mig ut av dyndet og la mig ikke synke! La mig bli reddet fra dem som hater mig, og fra de dype vann!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 144:7
Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
Read in contextPsalms 109:21
But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
Read in contextJeremiah 38:6–13
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
Read in contextPsalms 69:1–2
Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.
Read in contextLamentations 3:55
I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
Read in contextPsalms 42:2
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
Read in contextLuke 19:14
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
Read in contextPsalms 35:19
Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
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