Berean BlueOpen the app

Scripture · Old Testament

Psalms 69:15

Psalms 69:15 is verse 15 of Psalms chapter 69, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

BSB source and public domain terms

King James Version

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

World English Bible

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Read in context

Psalms 69:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible

13 But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

14 Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

15 Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

16 Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

17 Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

Read all of Psalms 69

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Psalms 69:15

Read the commentary on Psalms 69

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 43:1

Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

Isaiah 43:2

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

Jonah 2:2

saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

Jonah 2:3

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

Jonah 2:4

At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

Jonah 2:5

The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

Jonah 2:6

To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

Jonah 2:7

As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Revelation 12:15

Then from the mouth of the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.

Revelation 12:16

But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that had poured from the dragon’s mouth.

Psalms 16:10

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Psalms 88:4

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

Psalms 88:5

I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

Psalms 88:6

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

Numbers 16:33

They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

Numbers 16:34

At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”

Acts 2:24

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

Acts 2:31

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

Open in Berean Blue