or why it is so dark that you cannot see. and why a flood of water covers you.
Psalm 69:2 - Tree of Life Version Save me, O God, for the waters have reached my soul. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overwhelm me. American Standard Version (1901) I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. Common English Bible I have sunk into deep mud. My feet can’t touch the bottom! I have entered deep water; the flood has swept me up. Catholic Public Domain Version O God, reach out to help me. O Lord, hasten to assist me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me. |
or why it is so dark that you cannot see. and why a flood of water covers you.
So let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found. When great floodwaters rise, they will not reach him.
‘Soon, all the women who are left in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: “Your close friends have misled you, and prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, and they deserted you.’”
So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern-pit of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard, lowering Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.
Waters surrounded me up to my soul. The deep sea engulfed me— reeds clung to my head.
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house; and yet it did not fall, for its foundation had been built on the rock.