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Psalm 69

Psa. 69:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I sink
taba` (Hebrew #2883)
to sink
KJV usage: drown, fasten, settle, sink.
Pronounce: taw-bah'
Origin: a primitive root
in χdeep
mtsowlah (Hebrew #4688)
also mtsuwlah {mets-oo-law'}; or mtsulah {mets-oo-law'}; from the same as 6683; a deep place (of water or mud)
KJV usage: bottom, deep, depth.
Pronounce: mets-o-law'
Origin: or mtsolah {mets-o-law'}
mire
yaven (Hebrew #3121)
properly, dregs (as effervescing); hence, mud
KJV usage: mire, miry.
Pronounce: yaw-ven'
Origin: from the same as 3196
, where there is no standing
mo`omad (Hebrew #4613)
literally, a foothold
KJV usage: standing.
Pronounce: moh-om-awd'
Origin: from 5975
: I am 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
into βdeep
ma`amaq (Hebrew #4615)
a deep
KJV usage: deep, depth.
Pronounce: mah-am-awk'
Origin: from 6009
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)
, where the floods
shibbol (Hebrew #7641)
from the same as 7640; a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch
KJV usage: branch, channel, ear (of corn), ((water-))flood, Shibboleth. Compare 5451.
Pronounce: shib-bole
Origin: or (feminine) shibboleth {shib-bo'-leth}
overflow
shataph (Hebrew #7857)
to gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquer
KJV usage: drown, (over-)flow(- whelm, rinse, run, rush, (throughly) wash (away).
Pronounce: shaw-taf'
Origin: a primitive root
me.
χ
the mire of the depth.
β
depth of.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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I sink.
Psa. 40:2• 2And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings: (Psa. 40:2)
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Jer. 38:6,22• 6Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
 22Behold, 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 they shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee; thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back. (Jer. 38:6,22)
deep mire.
Heb. the mire of depth.
deep waters.
Heb. depthof waters.
Psa. 88:6‑7• 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
 7Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. (Psa. 88:6‑7)
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Ezek. 27:26‑34• 26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters; the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.
 27Thy substance, and thy markets, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, they that repair thy leaks, and they that barter with thee, and all thy men of war that are in thee, along with all thine assemblage which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy fall.
 28The open places shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
 29And all that handle the oar, the mariners, all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land,
 30and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly; and they shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in ashes.
 31And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird themselves with sackcloth; and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
 32And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, Who is like Tyre, like her that is destroyed in the midst of the sea?
 33When thy wares went forth over the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the abundance of thy substance and of thy merchandise.
 34In the time when thou art broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thine assemblage in the midst of thee have fallen. (Ezek. 27:26‑34)
the floods.
Psa. 32:6• 6For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him. (Psa. 32:6)
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Gen. 7:17‑23• 17And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.
 18And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark went on the face of the waters.
 19And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.
 20Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered.
 21And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:
 22everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
 23And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark. (Gen. 7:17‑23)
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Matt. 7:25• 25and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock. (Matt. 7:25)
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Matt. 26:37‑38• 37And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and deeply depressed.
 38Then he says to them, My soul is very sorrowful even unto death; remain here and watch with me. (Matt. 26:37‑38)
• The nation had “no standing” before God; into this position the Lord entered in spirit on the cross. (“Psalms 69” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.