34 Can you command[a] the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 38:34 Lit lift up your voice to

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

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Psalm 69

A Plea for Rescue

For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.”(A) Of David.

Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.(B)
I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep water,
and a flood sweeps over me.(C)

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

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Footnotes

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

54 Water flooded over my head,(A)
and I thought, “I’m going to die!” (B)

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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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