Psalms 69:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַצִּילֵ֣נִי מִ֭טִּיט וְאַל־אֶטְבָּ֑עָה אִנָּצְלָ֥ה מִ֝שֹּֽׂנְאַ֗י וּמִמַּֽעֲמַקֵּי־מָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

haṣṣîlēnî from-ṭîṭ and-not-'eṭbā'â 'innāṣĕlâ from-śōnĕ'ay and-from-ma'ămaqê-māyim

Grammar Details

*haṣṣîlēnî*: Hiphil imperative, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - rescue me
*ṭîṭ*: masculine singular noun with prefixed preposition min - from mud
*'eṭbā'â*: Qal imperfect cohortative, 1st person singular with negative particle 'al - let me not sink
*'innāṣĕlâ*: Niphal cohortative, 1st person singular - let me be delivered
*śōnĕ'ay*: Qal participle, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix and prefixed preposition min - from my haters
*ma'ămaqê*: masculine plural construct noun with prefixed preposition min - from depths of
*māyim*: masculine plural noun - waters

Word Meanings

*haṣṣîlēnî*: deliver me/rescue me/save me
*ṭîṭ*: mud/mire/clay
*'eṭbā'â*: let me not sink/may I not sink
*'innāṣĕlâ*: let me be delivered/may I be rescued
*śōnĕ'ay*: those who hate me/my haters
*ma'ămaqê*: depths/deep places
*māyim*: waters/water

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Num 16:33-34 : 33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly. 34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
Ps 16:10 : 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
Ps 88:4-6 : 4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
Ps 124:4-5 : 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul; 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
Isa 43:1-2 : 1 But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine. 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.
Jonah 2:2-7 : 2 And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, [And] thou heardest my voice. 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. 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God. 7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.
Matt 12:40 : 40 for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Acts 2:24 : 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Acts 2:31 : 31 he foreseeing [this] spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he {G5590} left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
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.

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