Psalms 69:14

“Deliver me out of the mire - Out of my troubles and calamities. See Psalms 69:1-2. And let me not sink - As in, mire. Let me not be overwhelmed by my sorrows. Let me be delivered from them that hate me - All my enemies. Let me be saved from their machinations and devices. And out of the deep waters - See Psalms 69:1-2. From my troubles. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Deliver: Psa 40:1-3; Jer 38:6-13; Lam 3:55 let me: Psa 25:18, Psa 25:19, Psa 35:19, Psa 109:3, Psa 109:21; Luk 19:14, Luk 19:27; Act 5:30, Act 5:31 out of: Psa 69:1, Psa 69:2, Psa 69:15, Psa 42:7, Psa 124:4, Psa 124:5, Psa 144:7; Mar 14:34-42, Mar 15:34 Psalms 69:15”

“In this second part the petition by which the first is as it were encircled, is continued; the peril grows greater the longer it lasts, and with it the importunity of the cry for help. The figure of sinking in the mire or mud and in the depths of the pit (בּאר, Ps 55:24, cf. בור, Psa 40:3) is again taken up, and so studiously wrought out, that the impression forces itself upon one that the poet is here describing something that has really taken place. The combination "from those who hate me and from the depths of the waters" shows that "the depths of the waters" is not a merely rhetorical figure; and the form of the prayer: let not the pit (the well-pit or covered tank) close (תּאטּר with…”