Psalms 69:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I am weary{H8804)} of my crying{H8800)}: my throat is dried{H8738)}: mine eyes fail{H8804)} while I wait{H8764)} for my God.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

טָבַ֤עְתִּי ׀ בִּיוֵ֣ן מְ֭צוּלָה וְאֵ֣ין מָעֳמָ֑ד בָּ֥אתִי בְמַעֲמַקֵּי־מַ֝֗יִם וְשִׁבֹּ֥לֶת שְׁטָפָֽתְנִי׃

Transliteration

ṭāba'tî in-yāwēn mĕṣûlâ and-'ên mā'ŏmād bā'tî in-ma'ămaqê-mayim and-šibbōlet šĕṭāpātnî

Grammar Details

*ṭāba'tî*: Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have sunk
*yāwēn*: masculine singular noun with prefixed preposition bĕ - in mire/mud
*mĕṣûlâ*: feminine singular noun - deep/depth
*'ên*: construct particle of negation - there is no
*mā'ŏmād*: masculine singular noun - standing place/foothold
*bā'tî*: Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have come/entered
*ma'ămaqê*: masculine plural construct noun with prefixed preposition bĕ - in depths of
*mayim*: masculine plural noun - waters
*šibbōlet*: feminine singular noun - flood/current/flowing stream
*šĕṭāpātnî*: Qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - it has overflowed me

Word Meanings

*ṭāba'tî*: I have sunk/I am sinking
*yāwēn*: mire/mud
*mĕṣûlâ*: depth/deep place/abyss
*mā'ŏmād*: standing place/foothold/foundation
*ma'ămaqê*: depths/deep places
*šibbōlet*: flowing stream/flood/current
*šĕṭāpātnî*: it has swept over me/it has flooded me/it has overwhelmed me

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 6:6 : 6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Ps 119:82 : 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Ps 119:123 : 123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Deut 28:32 : 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
Ps 22:15 : 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Ps 25:21 : 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Ps 39:7 : 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Ps 69:21 : 21 They gave{H8799)} me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink{H8686)}.
Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Job 16:16 : 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Ps 13:1-3 : 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Ps 22:2 : 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Lam 2:11 : 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
John 19:28 : 28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 69:1-2
2 verses
79%
1To the chief Musician{H8764)} upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save{H8685)} me, O God; for the waters are come{H8804)} in unto my soul.
2I sink{H8804)} in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come{H8804)} into deep waters, where the floods overflow{H8804)} me.
Ps 42:1-3
3 verses
78%
1To the chief Musician{H8764)}, Maschil{H8688)}, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth{H8799)} after the water brooks, so panteth{H8799)} my soul after thee, O God.
2My soul thirsteth{H8804)} for God, for the living God: when shall I come{H8799)} and appear{H8735)} before God?
3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say{H8800)} unto me, Where is thy God?
Ps 119:82
77%
82Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Ps 6:6-7
2 verses
77%
6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
7Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Ps 31:9-10
2 verses
77%
9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Job 3:24
76%
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Ps 143:6
76%
6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Ps 38:8-10
3 verses
76%
8I am feeble and sore broken{H8738)}: I have roared{H8804)} by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10My heart panteth, my strength faileth{H8804)} me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Ps 69:20
76%
20Reproach hath broken{H8804)} my heart; and I am full of heaviness{H8799)}: and I looked{H8762)} for some to take pity{H8800)}, but there was none; and for comforters{H8764)}, but I found{H8804)} none.
Ps 63:1
76%
1A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek{H8762)} thee: my soul thirsteth{H8804)} for thee, my flesh longeth{H8804)} for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Ps 22:14-15
2 verses
75%
14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Ps 42:9
75%
9I will say{H8799)} unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten{H8804)} me? why go{H8799)} I mourning{H8802)} because of the oppression of the enemy{H8802)}?
Ps 22:1-2
2 verses
74%
1To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Job 16:20
74%
20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Ps 77:1-2
2 verses
74%
1To the chief Musician{H8764)}, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried{H8799)} unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear{H8689)} unto me.
2In the day of my trouble I sought{H8804)} the Lord: my sore ran{H8738)} in the night, and ceased{H8799)} not: my soul refused{H8765)} to be comforted{H8736)}.
Ps 88:9
74%
9Mine eye mourneth{H8804)} by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called{H8804)} daily upon thee, I have stretched out{H8765)} my hands unto thee.
Ps 69:4
74%
4They that hate{H8802)} me without a cause are more{H8804)} than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy{H8688)} me, being mine enemies{H8802)} wrongfully, are mighty{H8804)}: then I restored{H8686)} that which I took not away{H8804)}.
Job 16:16
74%
16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Ps 61:1
74%
1To the chief Musician{H8764)} upon Neginah, A Psalm of David. Hear{H8798)} my cry, O God; attend{H8685)} unto my prayer.
Ps 39:7
73%
7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Ps 109:22
73%
22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Ps 119:123
73%
123Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Ps 40:1
73%
1To the chief Musician{H8764)}, A Psalm of David. I waited{H8765)} patiently{H8763)} for the LORD; and he inclined{H8799)} unto me, and heard{H8799)} my cry.
Ps 141:1
73%
1A Psalm of David. LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
Ps 102:5
73%
5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
Ps 39:12
73%
12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear{H8685)} unto my cry; hold not thy peace{H8799)} at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Ps 142:6
73%
6Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Ps 143:4
73%
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Ps 130:5-6
2 verses
73%
5I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
6My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Isa 38:14
73%
14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Ps 69:29
73%
29But I am poor and sorrowful{H8802)}: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high{H8762)}.
Lam 1:16
73%
16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Ps 38:17
73%
17For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Ps 69:13
73%
13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear{H8798)} me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Lam 3:49
73%
49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Ps 40:12
72%
12For innumerable evils have compassed{H8804)} me about: mine iniquities have taken hold{H8689)} upon me, so that I am not able{H8804)} to look up{H8800)}; they are more{H8804)} than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth{H8804)} me.
Job 7:19
72%
19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Ps 142:1
72%
1Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Lam 1:22
72%
22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.