Psalms 69:2

Discouragement and depression Exhaustion Suffering

¹ Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

³ I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

⁴ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

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 brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
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Matthew 7:25
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
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Jeremiah 38:6
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
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Psalms 32:6
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
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Psalms 88:6–7
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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Jeremiah 38:22
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
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Genesis 7:17–23
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
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Matthew 26:37–38
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
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