Psalms 69:2

Discouragement and depression Exhaustion Suffering

¹ Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

³ I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

⁴ Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
KJV: I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
WEB: I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
ASV: I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
DARBY: I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.
BLB: I sink in the mire of the deep, and there is no place to stand; I have come into the depths of the waters, and a flood washes over me.

ÅB: Jeg er sunket ned i bunnløst dynd, hvor der intet fotfeste er; jeg er kommet i dype vann, og strømmen slår over meg.
OTB: Jeg har sunket ned i dyp gjørme, og det er ingen fotfeste;
Jeg har kommet inn i dype vann, og flommen overvelder meg.
B1930: Jeg er sunket ned i bunnløst dynd, hvor der intet fotfeste er; jeg er kommet i dype vann, og strømmen slår over mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 40:2
He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
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Matthew 7:25
The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
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Jeremiah 38:6
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.
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Psalms 32:6
Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.
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Psalms 88:6–7
You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
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Jeremiah 38:22
All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you— those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’
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Genesis 7:17–23
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
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Matthew 26:37–38
He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
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