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Psalm 69

Psa. 69:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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<<To the chief Musician
natsach (Hebrew #5329)
properly, to glitter from afar, i.e. to be eminent (as a superintendent, especially of the Temple services and its music); also (as denominative from 5331), to be permanent
KJV usage: excel, chief musician (singer), oversee(-r), set forward.
Pronounce: naw-tsakh'
Origin: a primitive root
upona Shoshannim
shuwshan (Hebrew #7799)
or shoshan {sho- shawn'}; and (feminine) showshannah {sho-shan-naw'}; from 7797; a lily (from its whiteness), as a flower of arch. ornament; also a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape)
KJV usage: lily, Shoshannim.
Pronounce: shoo-shan'
Origin: or showshan {sho-shawn'}
, A Psalm of David
David (Hebrew #1732)
Daviyd {daw-veed'}; from the same as 1730; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse
KJV usage: David.
Pronounce: daw-veed'
Origin: rarely (fully)
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yasha` (Hebrew #3467)
properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
KJV usage: X at all, avenging, defend, deliver(-er), help, preserve, rescue, be safe, bring (having) salvation, save(-iour), get victory.
Pronounce: yaw-shah'
Origin: a primitive root
me, O God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
; for the waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
are come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
in unto my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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1-12:  David complains of his affliction.
13-21:  He prays for deliverance.
22-29:  He devotes his enemies to destruction.
30-36:  He praises God with thanksgiving.
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Shoshannim.
A Psalm.It is uncertain when this Psalm was composed; though it is probable that it was written by David during the rebellion of Absalom.
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 deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
(Psa. 69:2,14‑15)
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Psa. 18:4• 4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. (Psa. 18:4)
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Psa. 42:7• 7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. (Psa. 42:7)
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Isa. 28:17• 17Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the 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 flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. (Lam. 3:54)
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Jonah 2:3‑5• 3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, 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 water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
(Rev. 12:15‑16)
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Rev. 17:15• 15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, 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

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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

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As Ps. 45.