Explanation: In Psalm 69 David pleads with God for deliverance from his enemies; and he describes his sufferings in terms, some of which, the New Testament applies to Christ. Today's painting focuses on a tragic drowning, a fate from which, by God's grace, David was rescued.

          [ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Matthew 26:48-49. Matthew 27: 48. Romans 11:9-10. Messianic Psalms: Psalm 2. Psalm 8. Psalm 16. Psalm 22. Psalm 34. Psalm 35. Psalm 40. Psalm 41. Psalm 45. Psalm 68. Psalm 69. Psalm 89. Psalm 102. Psalm 109. Psalm 110. Psalm 118 ]

          [ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]

          [ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]

          [ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

          [ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Psalm 69 - #1. Psalm 69 - #2. Psalm 69 - #3. Psalm 69 - #4. ]

     David asks God to save him because the waters have come into his soul. He sinks deep in mire where he cannot stand; and the floods overflow him. He is weary with crying; his throat is parched; his eyes fail while he waits for God (1-3). Those who hate him without cause are more than the hairs of his head. They wish to destroy him. They are mighty. He was forced to restore that which he did not steal (4). God knows his folly and his sin; but he asks that those who wait on God (including himself) will not be ashamed or confounded, because he bore reproach, shame, and alienation for God. But the zeal of God's house ate him up; and those who reproached God also reproached him. He wept, fasted, and went about in sackcloth, while his enemies turned him into a proverb; and he became the song of drunkards (5-12). But David's prayer was that God would hear him in an acceptable time, in the multitude of his mercy, and deliver him (13). He was in the mire (as he mentioned in verse 2); and he asked that he would not sink, but be delivered from those who hate him, from the deep waters of their hatred (14). He asked to be delivered from the waterflood and the pit (15). He asked that the LORD would hear him in his lovingkindness and tender mercy (16). He asked that the LORD would not hide his face form him, but would speedily deliver him from his trouble (17). He asked God to draw near to his soul and deliver it (18). He said that God knew his reproach, his shame, and his dishonor at the hands of his adversaries. Reproach had broken his heart. He was filled with heaviness. He looked for pity but found none. He looked for comforters but found none. Figuratively, they gave him gall and vinegar to drink; and for Christ they literally gave him these things to drink (19-21). So David prays that his enemies will be taken in their own devices, that they will come into darkness and trembling, that God will pour out his indignation and wrath upon them, and that he would make their habitation desolate permanently, because they persecute and grieve him in his affliction (22-26). He asks that God will take full account of their sins, missing nothing, and that he would not account them to be righteous. He asks that they would blotted out of God's book of life (27-28). But David asks that he, in his poorness and sorrow would be delivered (29). When the LORD does this, David will praise his name with a song and with thanksgiving, which will please God more than sacrifices (30-31). The humble will see it and be glad and enlivened (32). For the LORD hears the poor, and does not despise his prisoners (33). So David calls upon heaven and earth and all that lives within them to praise God because God will build the cities of Judah and will save Zion; and the offspring of his servants will inherit it; and those who love his name will dwell within it (34-36).