Psalms 69:2

King James Version:

(The Lord speaking is red text)

I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Complete Jewish Bible:

I am sinking down in the mud, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep water; the flood is sweeping over me.

Berean Standard Bible:

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

American Standard Version:

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

KJV with Strong’s Numbers:

I sink{H2883}{H8804)} in deep{H4688} mire{H3121}, where there is no standing{H4613}: I am come{H935}{H8804)} into deep{H4615} waters{H4325}, where the floods{H7641} overflow{H7857}{H8804)} me.

Cross-References (KJV):

Psalms 40:2

  • He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.

Jeremiah 38:6

  • Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

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 a rock.

Psalms 88:6

  • Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Psalms 88:7

  • Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.

Psalms 32:6

  • For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Jeremiah 38:22

  • And, 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 friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, [and] they are turned away back.

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Commentary for Psalms 69:2

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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:

Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)

  1. Strong's Number: H2883
    There are 10 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: טָבַע
    Transliteration: ṭâbaʻ
    Pronunciation: taw-bah'
    Description: a primitive root; to sink; drown, fasten, settle, sink.
  2. Strong's Number: H4688
    There are 11 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: מְצוֹלָה
    Transliteration: mᵉtsôwlâh
    Pronunciation: mets-o-law'
    Description: or מְצֹלָה; also מְצוּלָה; or מְצֻלָה; from the same as צוּלָה; a deep place (of water or mud); bottom, deep, depth.
  3. Strong's Number: H3121
    There are 2 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: יָוֵן
    Transliteration: yâvên
    Pronunciation: yaw-ven'
    Description: from the same as יַיִן; properly, dregs (as effervescing); hence, mud; mire, miry.
  4. Strong's Number: H4613
    There are 1 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: מׇעֳמָד
    Transliteration: moʻŏmâd
    Pronunciation: moh-om-awd'
    Description: from עָמַד; literally a foothold; standing.
  5. Strong's Number: H935
    There are 2307 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: בּוֹא
    Transliteration: bôwʼ
    Pronunciation: bo
    Description: a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications); abide, apply, attain, [idiom] be, befall, [phrase] besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, [idiom] certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, [idiom] doubtless again, [phrase] eat, [phrase] employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, [phrase] follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, [phrase] have, [idiom] indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, [idiom] (well) stricken (in age), [idiom] surely, take (in), way.
  6. Strong's Number: H4615
    There are 5 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: מַעֲמָק
    Transliteration: maʻămâq
    Pronunciation: mah-am-awk'
    Description: from עָמַק; a deep; deep, depth.
  7. Strong's Number: H4325
    There are 525 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: מַיִם
    Transliteration: mayim
    Pronunciation: mah'-yim
    Description: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen; [phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
  8. Strong's Number: H7641
    There are 16 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: שִׁבֹּל
    Transliteration: shibbôl
    Pronunciation: shib-bole
    Description: or (feminine) שִׁבֹּלֶת; from the same as שֹׁבֶל; a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch; branch, channel, ear (of corn), (water-)flood, Shibboleth. Compare סִבֹּלֶת.
  9. Strong's Number: H7857
    There are 30 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: שָׁטַף
    Transliteration: shâṭaph
    Pronunciation: shaw-taf'
    Description: a primitive root; to gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquer; drown, (over-) flow(-whelm, rinse, run, rush, (throughly) wash (away).