Psalm 69 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

It is an exceedingly fine composition; it evidently refers to the advent, passion, and resurrection of our Lord, to the vocation of the Gentiles, and the reprobation of Jews: See the Marginal References.the waters.

Psa. 69:2,14‑15• ²I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.
¹⁴Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of waters.
¹⁵Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. (Psa. 69:2,14‑15)

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Psa. 18:4• ⁴The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid. (Psa. 18:4)

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Psa. 42:7• ⁷Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me. (Psa. 42:7)

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Isa. 28:17• ¹⁷And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. (Isa. 28:17)

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Isa. 43:2• ²When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. (Isa. 43:2)

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Lam. 3:54• ⁵⁴Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off. (Lam. 3:54)

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Jonah 2:3‑5• ³For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
⁴And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.
⁵The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head. (Jonah 2:3‑5)

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Rev. 12:15‑16• ¹⁵And the serpent cast out of his mouth behind the woman water as a river, that he might make her be as one carried away by a river.
¹⁶And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth. (Rev. 12:15‑16)

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Rev. 17:15• ¹⁵And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. (Rev. 17:15)

• Book 2, Series 4, Psa. 69-72. The Great Tribulation. (““The Placement of the Psalms in Prophecy”” by B. Anstey)

• The third class of sufferings He did not go through, except anticipatively, just at the close of His life, when He said, “I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened til it be accomplished!” (Luke 12:50). If He had been in it all the time, He would not have spoken of going through it afterward. At the close He enters into a new scene, not only in the way of expiation, but Satan comes back after he had departed for a season (Luke 4:13). He said, “Hereafter I will not talk much with you; for the prince of this world cometh.” The character of suffering is not the present forsaking of God. However, as from Him, Satan stirred up the whole world against Him; but, besides that, He brought the terribleness of distress from a broken law, the power of death, and an angry God to distress His soul. (“Psalm 69” by J.N. Darby)

• The experiences described in the psalm, though applicable to others, are only fully entered into by Christ. Seeing that the experiences can be known in measure by others, it becomes plain why the sufferings stop short of atonement, with the consequent forsaking of God which Christ alone can endure, as set forth in Psalms 22. (“Psalms 69” by H. Smith)

• (vv. 1-3) The opening verses present the Lord’s personal sufferings on the cross. Later in the psalm we hear of the enmity of man that was endured in the path that led to the cross. (“Psalms 69” by H. Smith)

• This psalm begins the final series in the second book again taking us back into the great tribulation when the godly Jewish remnant are found suffering under Antichrist. (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

• The remnant are hated without a cause by their apostate brethren (vs. 1-6). The Lord fully enters into their sorrow. The hatred they experience from the Jewish nation was perfectly felt by Him on the cross when He was hated by the nation without a cause (Jn. 15:23-25). (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannimb. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

JND Translation Notes

As Ps. 45.