Psalm 69

A Plea for Rescue

For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.”[a] Davidic.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:1 Possibly a tune; Pss 45; 60; 80

14 Rescue me from the miry mud; don’t let me sink.
Let me be rescued from those who hate me
and from the deep waters.(A)
15 Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over me
or the deep swallow me up;
don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.(B)

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54 Water flooded over my head,(A)
and I thought: I’m going to die!(B)

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