Psalms 69

Treated in 17 passages across the library.

  • 69:9 Passion for your house burns me up, and the taunts aimed at you have landed on me. 3
  • 69:1 Rescue me, God, for the water has risen to my throat. 2
  • 69:14 Pull me out of the mud, and do not let me go under; let me be snatched away from those who hate me, out of the deep water. 2
  • 69:28 May their names be erased from the book of life, never to be entered with the righteous. 2
  • 69:30 With a song I will praise God's name and proclaim his greatness with thanksgiving. 2
  • 69:3 I am exhausted from calling out; my throat is burning dry. My eyes have grown dim from watching for my God. 1
  • 69:4 There are more people hating me for no reason than hairs on my head; strong are the ones who seek my ruin, my enemies with their lies. Am I to repay what I never took? 1
  • 69:12 The people who sit at the city gate gossip about me, and drunkards sing songs mocking me. 1
  • 69:21 They put bitter poison into my food, and for my thirst they handed me sour wine. 1
  • 69:22 May the meal set before them become a trap for them, a snare when they feel secure. 1
  • 69:31 That will delight the LORD more than an ox or a young bull with full-grown horns and hooves. 1
  • 69:33 For the LORD hears the poor and does not look down on his people in chains. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Prayer – The Pulse of Life · Hannah Buyinza

    Types of Prayer cites Psalms 69:30

    …with gratitude, one that exalts God and expresses his majesty, wondrous deeds, and might. Psalms 69:30 says: ‘ I will raise the name of the Lord with songs, this shall please the Lord better…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Psa 69: 33

    …out of the dust.’ 1 Sam 2: 8. Mercies for the prisoner: he ‘despiseth not his prisoners.’ Psa 69: 33. Mercies for the dejected: ‘In a little wrath I hid my face from thee but with…

  3. The Key Teachings of John Bunyan · Ochorus Originals

    The Slough of Despond cites PSALM 69:1–2

    …where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. PSALM 69:1–2 Why Christian sinks and Pliable does not There is a sharp observation hidden here. Both…

  4. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fourth Stage cites Psa. 69:14

    …fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not He that is able plucked him out. Psa. 69:14. The pathway was here also exceeding narrow, and therefore good Christian was the more…

  5. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    Zeal cites Psalm lxix. 9

    …me." And His own words were "My meat is to do my Father's will, and to finish His work." (Psalm lxix. 9; Isaiah lix. 17; John iv. 34.) Where shall we begin, if we try to give examples of His…

  6. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    Formality cites Psalm lxix. 12

    …"They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards." (Psalm lxix. 12.) We find the prophets persecuted and ill-treated because they preached against sin, and…

  7. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Why all things work for good cites Psalm lxix. 22

    …sumptuously spread, but there is a hook under the bait: “Let their table become a snare” (Psalm lxix. 22). All their enjoyments are like Israel’s quails, which were sauced with the wrath of God…

  8. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 10 — The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New cites Psalm 69:28

    …them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous,” (Psalm 69:28). 19. The most remarkable passage of all is that of Job: “I know that my Redeemer liveth…

  9. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 16 — How Christ Performed the Office of Redeemer in Procuring Our Salvation cites Ps. 69:4

    …call to mind what is said by another prophet, “I restored that which I took not away,” (Ps. 69:4). Thus we perceive Christ representing the character of a sinner and a criminal, while…

  10. The Key Teachings of John Bunyan · Ochorus Originals

    The Valley of the Shadow of Death cites PSALM 69:14

    …let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. PSALM 69:14 All-prayer About the middle of the valley is the mouth of hell, hard by the wayside.…

  11. The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth · Ochorus Originals

    The World’s Need cites PSALM 69:9

    …refusals to speak when the Spirit said speak. The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. PSALM 69:9 Her counsel was blunt. Never mind the consequences; obey. Never mind if it chokes you. “I…

  12. The Key Teachings of John Bunyan · Ochorus Originals

    The River and the Celestial City cites PSALM 69:1

    …his brother’s head above water. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. PSALM 69:1 This is astonishing, and it is deliberate. Christian — the man who lost his burden at the…

  13. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.6 Prayer cites Ps 69: 3

    …prayer. I have prayed a long time for mercy, and have no answer. ‘I am weary of crying.’ Ps 69: 3. (1) God may hear us when we do not hear from him; as soon as prayer is made, God hears…

  14. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Man's Chief End cites Psa 69:9

    …as the apple of his eye. An ingenuous child weeps to see a disgrace done to his father. Psa 69:9. ‘The reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.’ When we hear God…

  15. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 24 — Election Confirmed by the Calling of God cites Psalm 69:28

    …them be blotted out of the Book of the Living, and not be written with the righteous,” (Psalm 69:28). 10. For the elect are brought by calling into the fold of Christ, not from the very…

  16. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 17 — Of the Lord’s Supper, and the Benefits Conferred by It cites Psalm 69:21

    …“They gave me also gall for my meat: and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink” (Psalm 69:21). These men would allegorise the expression to mean, that the body of Christ was nailed…

  17. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Thanksgiving Versus Complaining cites Psalm 69:30-31

    …will magnify him with thanksgiving. This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull” (Psalm 69:30-31). Many are willing to offer a great sacrifice, but a little genuine praise would please…