Verse 1

To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Deliver me from the mire, and let me not sink, Let me be delivered from those hating me, And from deep places of waters. 15 Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut her mouth upon me.
  • Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.
  • Ps 45:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies.' -- By sons of Korah. -- An Instruction. -- A song of loves. My heart hath indited a good thing, I am telling my works to a king, My tongue `is' the pen of a speedy writer.
  • Isa 43:2 : 2 When thou passest into waters, I `am' with thee, And into floods, they do not overflow thee, When thou goest into fire, thou art not burnt, And a flame doth not burn against thee.
  • Lam 3:54 : 54 Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
  • Jonah 2:3-5 : 3 When Thou dost cast me `into' the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me. 4 And I -- I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!) 5 Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.
  • Rev 12:15-16 : 15 and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river, 16 and the land did help the woman, and the land did open its mouth and did swallow up the river, that the dragon did cast forth out of his mouth;
  • Rev 17:15 : 15 And he saith to me, `The waters that thou didst see, where the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;'
  • Ps 60:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.
  • Ps 69:2 : 2 I have sunk in deep mire, And there is no standing, I have come into the depths of the waters, And a flood hath overflown me.
  • Ps 80:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- shine forth,
  • Isa 28:17 : 17 And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the secret hiding-place do waters overflow.
  • Job 22:11 : 11 Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
  • Ps 32:6 : 6 For this doth every saintly one pray to Thee, As the time to find. Surely at an overflowing of many waters, Unto him they come not.