34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
That an abundance of water may cover you?

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34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
    and cover yourself with a flood of water?(A)

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An Urgent Plea for Help in Trouble

To the Chief Musician. Set to [a]“The Lilies.” A Psalm of David.

69 Save me, O God!
For (A)the waters have come up to my [b]neck.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:1 Heb. Shoshannim
  2. Psalm 69:1 Lit. soul

Psalm 69[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David.

Save me, O God,
    for the waters(A) have come up to my neck.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:1 In Hebrew texts 69:1-36 is numbered 69:2-37.

(A)I sink in deep mire,
Where there is no standing;
I have come into deep waters,
Where the floods overflow me.

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I sink in the miry depths,(A)
    where there is no foothold.
I have come into the deep waters;
    the floods engulf me.

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Then the swollen waters
Would have [a]gone over our soul.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 124:5 swept over

the raging waters
    would have swept us away.

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54 (A)The waters flowed over my head;
(B)I said, “I am cut off!”

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54 the waters closed over my head,(A)
    and I thought I was about to perish.(B)

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