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2I sink{H8804)} in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come{H8804)} into deep waters, where the floods overflow{H8804)} me.
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He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. …
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)In these verses David complains of his troubles, intermixing with those complaints some requests for relief. I. His complaints are very sad, and he pours them out before the Lord, as one that hoped thus to ease himself of a burden that lay very heaven upon him. 1. He complains of the deep impressions that his troubles made upon his spirit ( Ps. 69:1 , 2 ): “The waters of affliction , those bitter…
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