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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• 2He 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. (Psa. 40:2)
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Jer. 38:6,22• 6Then 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.
 22And, 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. (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 darkness, in the deeps.
 7Thy wrath 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 midst of the seas.
 27Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
 28The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
 29And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and 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 against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
 31And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
 32And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
 33When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
 34In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. (Ezek. 27:26‑34)
the floods.
Psa. 32:6• 6For 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. (Psa. 32:6)
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Gen. 7:17‑23• 17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
 18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
 19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
 20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
 21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
 22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
 23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. (Gen. 7:17‑23)
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Matt. 7:25• 25And 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. (Matt. 7:25)
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Matt. 26:37‑38• 37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
 38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye 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.