Psalm 69:15 {68:16}
Good News Translation
Don't let the flood come over me; don't let me drown in the depths or sink into the grave.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not let the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the Pit close its mouth over me.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let me be swept away by a flood or drowned in the ocean or swallowed by death.

New American Bible
Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me, nor the deep swallow me, nor the pit close its mouth over me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

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Isaiah 43:1,2 And now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and called thee by thy name: thou art mine. . . .

Jonah 2:2-7 And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish. . . .

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

Revelation 12:15,16 And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, as it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the river. . . .

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Psalm 16:10 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption.

Psalm 88:4-6 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, . . .

Numbers 16:33,34 And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people. . . .

Acts 2:24,31 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it. . . .

Context
The Waters Are Up to My Neck
14Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.16Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.…
Cross References
Numbers 16:33
And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.

2 Samuel 22:5
For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.

Psalm 28:1
A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 69:1
Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.

Psalm 88:6
They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

Psalm 124:4
Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

Psalm 124:5
Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.

Psalm 141:7
As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.

Psalm 69:14
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