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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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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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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Footnotes

  1. 2:3 Lit river

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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Footnotes

  1. 2:5 Or me, threatening my life

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