Psalms 68:15
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.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Eripe me de luto, ut non infigar ; libera me ab iis qui oderunt me, et de profundis aquarum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σῶσόν με ἀπὸ πηλοῦ, ἵνα μὴ ἐνπαγῶ· ῥυσθείην ἐκ τῶν μισούντων με καὶ ἐκ τοῦ βάθους τῶν ὑδάτων.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 69:15
- הַצִּילֵ֣נִי מִ֭טִּיט וְאַל אֶטְבָּ֑עָה אִנָּצְלָ֥ה מִ֝שֹּֽׂנְאַ֗י וּמִמַּֽעֲמַקֵּי מָֽיִם
Haydock's commentary
Waters. Beneath which the Hebrews supposed hell was placed, Job xxvi. 5. (St. Hilary v. 39.)
He prays to be delivered from misery, (ver. 2.) and for a glorious resurrection. (Calmet)
Christ could not be detained in limbo or in the grave. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIX
17. “Save Thou Me from the mire, that I may not stick” ( ver. 14 ). From that whereof above he had spoken, “Fixed I am in the clay of the deep, and there is no substance.” Furthermore, since ye have duly received the exposition of that expression, in this place there is nothing further for you to hear particularly. From hence he saith that he must be delivered, wherein before he said that he was fixed: “Save Thou Me from the mire, that I may not stick.” And he explaineth this himself: “Let Me be rescued from them that hate Me.” They were themselves therefore the clay wherein he had stuck. But the following perchance suggesteth itself. …