...181-182. PSALM 68 For the End: Concerning Those Verses That Are to be Alternated. A Psalm of David. 1. Save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2. 1 am stuck fast in the mire of the deep, and there is no sure standing. 3. 1 am come into the deeps...

...ttiumph' (p. 96). The opening of Psalm 69, used so powerfully hy Bunyan and Bronte, makes the point: Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow...

...his voice is even, gentle, the almost toneless drone of one accustomed to reading from the pulpit. Save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul Stacey looks at him, but can find no clues anywhere in his apparently untroubled face. She walks out...

...despair, Stacey is blinded by tears of sympathy for her father-in-law Matthew, when he repeats the Psalm, "Save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul" (164). But Stacey does not drown; like Rachel, she suffers her own significant sea change — a "change...

...was borrowed, the Hebrew underworld (sheol) is represented as a bottomless pit of water (vv. 1-2): "Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overthrow...

...ally themselves with the king of Gath to fight his enemies, they defeat the Amalekites. On the move. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. Criminals according to Saul, who hunts them in between his battles with Philistines, crying that nobody...

...in the psalms for pleas in extremis to be spoken of as Out of the [watery] depths. Psalm 69 opens, 'Save me, O God: For the waters are come in unto my soul' (v. 2), and prays, 'Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink' (v. 15); and much of Psalm 88...

...Psalm were built, with a telling modification, into the ending of the Jane Eyre chapter (and volume): 'Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow...

...Churchmen called the 'Passion-Psalms' - 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' (Psalm 22) and 'Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul' (Psalm 69) - and echoes Thomas Scott's headnote to Psalm 22 - 'David, prophetically speaking in the...

...unto his people. Blessed be God. PSALM 69 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 deep waters, where the floods overflow...