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Psalm 69:14
Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
12Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
13But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
14Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
16Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
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Mire and deep waters make the plea for rescue feel urgent: the speaker faces hatred and asks God to keep him from going under.
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Psalm 144:7Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,Both prayers ask God to deliver the speaker from threatening people and from waters too great to face alone.
Psalm 109:21But deal with me, GOD the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;Both ask God for deliverance; Psalm 109 names his good loving kindness, as does the surrounding prayer in Psalm 69.
Jeremiah 38:6–13Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In …Jeremiah sinks into actual mire after being thrown into a dungeon; Psalm 69 uses sinking mire to describe the need for rescue.
Lamentations 3:55I called on your name, LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.Both speakers turn to God from a place described in terms of depth: deep waters and the lowest dungeon.
Psalm 69:1–2For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!The opening cry describes waters reaching the speaker’s neck; verse 14 returns to those waters with a plea for deliverance.
Job 30:19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.Both speakers describe their distress through mire, though Job describes being cast into it and the psalm asks for deliverance.
Psalm 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.Both psalms use deep, overwhelming water to describe distress, with one asking for rescue and the other describing waves sweeping over.
Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’Both passages name hatred toward a central figure; Luke’s citizens express theirs through an envoy rejecting his rule.
Mark 14:34–42He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.”Both express severe distress: the psalm pictures sinking, while Jesus describes sorrow reaching even to death.
Mark 15:34At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken …Both contain cries addressed to God in suffering, though Jesus asks about forsakenness and the psalm asks for deliverance.
Luke 19:27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”Both mention hostile people, but their requests differ: the psalm seeks deliverance, while Luke’s ruler orders his enemies killed.
2 Chronicles 18:7The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, …Hatred is explicit in both texts: the psalm’s speaker seeks rescue from it, while Israel’s king declares hatred for Micaiah.
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The speaker prays while the danger remains. You do not have to describe the waters as shallow to ask God for help; this prayer asks for rescue.
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