Psalms 69:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַמְנַצֵּ֬חַ עַֽל־שׁוֹשַׁנִּ֬ים לְדָוִֽד׃

Transliteration

To-the-mĕnaṣṣēaḥ upon-šôšannîm for-dāwid

Grammar Details

• *mĕnaṣṣēaḥ*: Piel participle, masculine singular with prefixed lamed - to the director/choirmaster
• *šôšannîm*: masculine plural noun with prefixed preposition 'al - upon lilies/roses (possibly musical instrument or tune)
• *dāwid*: proper name with prefixed lamed - belonging to/for David

Word Meanings

• *mĕnaṣṣēaḥ*: choir director/musical director/chief musician
• *šôšannîm*: lilies/roses/musical instrument/tune name/musical notation
• *dāwid*: David (proper name)

Referenced Verses

• Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
• Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
• Ps 45:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves. My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
• Isa 43:2 : 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
• Lam 3:54 : 54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
• Jonah 2:3-5 : 3 For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me. 4 And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.
• Rev 12:15-16 : 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. 16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
• Rev 17:15 : 15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
• Ps 60:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand. O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.
• Ps 69:2 : 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
• Ps 80:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest [above] the cherubim, shine forth.
• Isa 28:17 : 17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
• Job 22:11 : 11 Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.
• Ps 18:4 : 4 The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
• Ps 32:6 : 6 For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him.