Psalm 69:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Save me, God, for the waters have reached my neck.

Cross References

Psalm 40:2

Surely, I wait for the Lord; who bends down to me and hears my cry,

Matthew 7:25

The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.

Jeremiah 38:6

And so they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Prince Malchiah, in the court of the guard, letting him down by rope. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Psalm 32:6

Therefore every loyal person should pray to you in time of distress. Though flood waters threaten, they will never reach him.

Jeremiah 38:22

I see all the women who remain in the house of Judah’s king being brought out to the princes of Babylon’s king, and they are crying: ‘They betrayed you, outdid you, your good friends! Now that your feet are sunk in mud, they slink away.’

Job 22:11

Or darkness—you cannot see! A deluge of waters covers you.

Jonah 2:6

The waters surged around me up to my neck; the deep enveloped me; seaweed wrapped around my head.