Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.(A)

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Deep calls to deep(A)
    in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
    have swept over me.(B)

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Psalm 69

A Plea for Rescue

For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.”(A) Of David.

Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.(B)
I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep water,
and a flood sweeps over me.(C)

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Psalm 69[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David.

Save me, O God,
    for the waters(A) have come up to my neck.(B)
I sink in the miry depths,(C)
    where there is no foothold.
I have come into the deep waters;
    the floods engulf me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:1 In Hebrew texts 69:1-36 is numbered 69:2-37.

When you threw me into the depths,(A)
into the heart of the seas,(B)
the current[a] overcame me.
All your breakers and your billows swept over me.(C)

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  1. 2:3 Lit river

You hurled me into the depths,(A)
    into the very heart of the seas,
    and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves(B) and breakers
    swept over me.(C)

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The water engulfed me up to the neck;[a](A)
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.(B)

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  1. 2:5 Or me, threatening my life

The engulfing waters threatened me,[a]
    the deep surrounded me;
    seaweed was wrapped around my head.(A)

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  1. Jonah 2:5 Or waters were at my throat