Psalm 69:2 {68:3}
Good News Translation
I am sinking in deep mud, and there is no solid ground; I am out in deep water, and the waves are about to drown me.

New Revised Standard Version
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

Contemporary English Version
I am sinking deep in the mud, and my feet are slipping. I am about to be swept under by a mighty flood.

New American Bible
I have sunk into the mire of the deep, where there is no foothold. I have gone down to the watery depths; the flood overwhelms me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

I sink

Psalm 40:2 And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

Jeremiah 38:6,22 Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but mire. And Jeremiah sunk into the mire. . . .

deep mire [heb] the mire of depth

Psalm 88:6,7 They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. . . .

Ezekiel 27:26-34 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea. . . .

the floods

Psalm 32:6 For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

Genesis 7:17-23 And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth. . . .

Matthew 7:25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.

Matthew 26:37,38 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad. . . .

Context
The Waters Are Up to My Neck
1Unto 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. 2I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.3I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.…
Cross References
Job 22:11
And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

Job 30:19
I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

Psalm 18:4
The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

Psalm 40:2
And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

Psalm 42:7
Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

Psalm 69:14
Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

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

Psalm 130:1
A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord:

Jeremiah 38:6
Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but mire. And Jeremiah sunk into the mire.

Jeremiah 51:55
Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice hath made a noise:

Lamentations 3:54
Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

Jonah 2:3
And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.

Jonah 2:5
And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see the holy temple again.

Psalm 69:1
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