Psalm 69 (68):15Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Douay-Rheims · Hebrew numbering, Septuagint numbering in brackets.

הַצִּילֵ֣נִי מִ֭טִּיט וְאַל־אֶטְבָּ֑עָה אִנָּצְלָ֥ה מִ֝שֹּֽׂנְאַ֗י וּמִמַּֽעֲמַקֵּי־מָֽיִם׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Nikolaj Velimirovic

20th centuryChurch Father

Our souls are clothed in dust, my brethren, and bodies of dust are given to us for our use. May our souls not sink into the dust! May they not be enslaved by the dust; may the living spark not be suffocated in the grave by the dust!

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Ps 16 (15):10
Rev 12:15And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, as it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the river.
Rev 12:16And the earth helped the woman: and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Jonah 2:2And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish.
Jonah 2:7I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God.
Acts 2:24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it.
Ps 88 (87):4
Ps 88 (87):6