Parallel Verses

World English Bible

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

New American Standard Bible

I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.

King James Version

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Holman Bible

I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep waters,
and a flood sweeps over me.

International Standard Version

I am sinking in deep mire, and there is no solid ground. I have come into deep water, and the flood overwhelms me.

A Conservative Version

I sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

American Standard Version

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Amplified


I have sunk in deep mire, where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, where a flood overwhelms me.

Bible in Basic English

My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

I sank in mire of depth, and no standing: I came into depths of waters and the floods overwhelmed me.

King James 2000

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I sink in [the] mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and [the] torrent floods over me.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I stick fast in the deep mire, where no ground is; I am come into deep waters, so that the floods run over me.

NET Bible

I sink into the deep mire where there is no solid ground; I am in deep water, and the current overpowers me.

New Heart English Bible

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

The Emphasized Bible

I have sunk in deep swamp, Where there is no place to stand, I have come into abysses of waters, Where a flood hath overflowed me;

Webster

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Youngs Literal Translation

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.

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Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

1 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Cross References

Psalm 40:2

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Genesis 7:17-23

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

Psalm 32:6

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Psalm 88:6-7

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Jeremiah 38:6

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Jeremiah 38:22

behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, and have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.

Ezekiel 27:26-34

Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

Matthew 7:25

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Matthew 26:37-38

He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.

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