Psalms 68:16
Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non me demergat tempestas aquæ, neque absorbeat me profundum, neque urgeat super me puteus os suum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μή με καταποντισάτω καταιγὶς ὕδατος, μηδὲ καταπιέτω με βυθός, μηδὲ συνσχέτω ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ φρέαρ στόμα αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 69:16
- אַל תִּשְׁטְפֵ֤נִי שִׁבֹּ֣לֶת מַ֭יִם וְאַל תִּבְלָעֵ֣נִי מְצוּלָ֑ה וְאַל תֶּאְטַר עָלַ֖י בְּאֵ֣ר פִּֽיהָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIX
18. “Let not the tempest of waters drown Me” ( ver. 15 ). But already he had been drowned. “I have come into the depth of the sea,” thou hast said, and “the tempest hath drowned Me,” thou hast said. It hath drowned after the flesh, let it not drown after the Spirit. They to whom was said, If they shall have persecuted you in one city, flee ye into another; had this said to them, that neither in flesh they should stick, nor in spirit. For we must not desire to stick even in flesh; but as far as we are able we ought to avoid it. But if we shall have stuck, and shall have fallen into the hands of sinners: then in body we have stuck, we are fixed in the clay of the deep, it remaineth to entreat for the soul that we stick not, that is, that we consent not, that the tempest of water drown us not, so that we go into the deep of the clay. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXLIII
9. “Turn not Thou away Thy Face from me.” Thou didst turn it away from me when proud. For once I was full, and in my fulness I was puffed up. Once “in my fulness I said, I shall never be moved.” “I said in my fulness, I shall not be moved,” knowing not Thy Righteousness, and establishing mine own; but “Thou, Lord, in Thy Will hast afforded strength to my beauty.” “I said in my fulness, I shall not be moved,” but from Thee came whatever fulness I had. …