Psalms 69:2
What does Psalms 69:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 69:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862I have sunk in deep mire, And there is no standing, I have come into the depths of the waters, And a flood hath overflown me.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 32:6
For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him.
- Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
- Matthew 26:37
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled.
- 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 the rock.
- Jeremiah 38:6
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
- Jeremiah 38:22
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 familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: now that thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.
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