Psalms 69:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Don’t let the current overpower me! Don’t let the deep swallow me up! Don’t let the Pit devour me!

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  • Num 16:33-34 : 33 They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community. 34 All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said,“What if the earth swallows us too?”
  • Ps 16:10 : 10 You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.
  • Ps 88:4-6 : 4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man, 5 adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power. 6 You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.
  • Ps 124:4-5 : 4 The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us. 5 The raging water would have overwhelmed us.
  • Isa 43:1-2 : 1 The Lord Will Rescue His People Now, this is what the LORD says, the one who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel:“Don’t be afraid, for I will protect you. I call you by name, you are mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I am with you; when you pass through the streams, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not harm you.
  • Jonah 2:2-7 : 2 and said,“I called out to the LORD from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer. 3 You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me. 4 I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple! 5 Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O LORD, my God. 7 When my life was ebbing away, I called out to the LORD. And my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.
  • Matt 12:40 : 40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.
  • Acts 2:31 : 31 David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.
  • Rev 12:15-16 : 15 Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood, 16 but the earth came to her rescue; the ground opened up and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.

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    13O LORD, may you hear my prayer and be favorably disposed to me! O God, because of your great loyal love, answer me with your faithful deliverance!

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  • Ps 69:1-3
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    1For the music director; according to the tune of“Lilies;” by David. Deliver me, O God, for the water has reached my neck.

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    3I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

  • Jonah 2:5-6
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    79%

    5Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

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    5The waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

    6The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.

  • Ps 69:16-17
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    16Answer me, O LORD, for your loyal love is good! Because of your great compassion, turn toward me!

    17Do not ignore your servant, for I am in trouble! Answer me right away!

  • Lam 3:54-55
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    54The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die.

    55ק(Qof) I have called on your name, O LORD, from the deepest pit.

  • Jonah 2:3
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    3You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.

  • Ps 42:7
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    7One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.

  • 2 Sam 22:17
    74%

    17He reached down from above and grabbed me; he pulled me from the surging water.

  • Ps 18:16
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    16He reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me from the surging water.

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    3O LORD, you pulled me up from Sheol; you rescued me from among those descending into the grave.

  • Ps 18:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

    5The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.

  • Ps 143:7
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    7Answer me quickly, LORD! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.

  • Ps 35:24-25
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    24Vindicate me by your justice, O LORD my God! Do not let them gloat over me!

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  • Ps 88:6
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    6You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.

  • Ps 28:1
    72%

    1By David. To you, O LORD, I cry out! My protector, do not ignore me! If you do not respond to me, I will join those who are descending into the grave.

  • Ps 124:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us.

    5The raging water would have overwhelmed us.

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    72%

    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • Job 38:16
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    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

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    17O LORD, do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave!

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    11Do not let arrogant men overtake me, or let evil men make me homeless!

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    71%

    19Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?

  • Exod 15:5
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    5The depths have covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone.

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    12Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?

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    14They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

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    70%

    7Reach down from above! Grab me and rescue me from the surging water, from the power of foreigners,

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  • Prov 1:12
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    12We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

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    21Do not abandon me, O LORD! My God, do not remain far away from me!

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    21Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.

  • Ps 22:19
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    19But you, O LORD, do not remain far away! You are my source of strength! Hurry and help me!

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    31then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

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    9Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set.

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    13when they prayed:“Have mercy on me, LORD! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, O one who can snatch me away from the gates of death!

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    4You will free me from the net they hid for me, for you are my place of refuge.