Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

New American Standard Bible

For the choir director; according to Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.
Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life.

King James Version

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

Holman Bible

For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” Davidic.Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.

International Standard Version

Deliver me, God, because the waters are up to my neck.

A Conservative Version

Save me, O God, for the waters have come in to my soul.

American Standard Version

Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.

Amplified

Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life [they have come up to my neck].

Bible in Basic English

Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

Julia Smith Translation

To the overseer upon the lilies; to David. Save me, O God, for the waters came even to the soul.

King James 2000

[To the Chief Musician upon shoshannim. A Psalm of David.] Save me, O God; for the waters have come in unto my soul.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Save me, O God, because waters have come up to [my] neck.

Modern King James verseion

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! for the waters have come in on my soul.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

{To the Chanter, upon Shoshannim, of David} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in, even unto my soul.

NET Bible

For the music director; according to the tune of "Lilies;" by David. Deliver me, O God, for the water has reached my neck.

New Heart English Bible

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck.

The Emphasized Bible

Save me, O God, For waters have entered as far as the life;

Webster

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.

World English Bible

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

Fausets

Watsons

Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

1 {To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.

Cross References

Psalm 69:14-15

Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of waters.

Psalm 42:7

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.

Psalm 45:1

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Job 22:11

Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee.

Psalm 18:4

The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.

Psalm 32:6

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him.

Psalm 60:1

{To the chief Musician. On Shushan. Testimony. Michtam of David; to teach: when he strove with the Syrians of Mesopotamia, and the Syrians of Zobah, and Joab returned, and smote the Edomites in the valley of salt, twelve thousand.} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased: restore us again.

Psalm 69:2

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.

Psalm 80:1

{To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.} Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest between the cherubim, shine forth.

Isaiah 28:17

And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

Isaiah 43:2

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Lamentations 3:54

Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

Jonah 2:3-5

For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.

Revelation 12:15-16

And the serpent cast out of his mouth behind the woman water as a river, that he might make her be as one carried away by a river.

Revelation 17:15

And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

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