“Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.”
The prayer to be delivered from the mire and not to sink establishes the request that God rescue from the overwhelming affliction. The reference to enemies and the deep waters indicates the comprehensive nature of the threat: enemies are around and suffering is total. This verse reiterates the fundamental petition: rescue from the depths of affliction.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:14
1. We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed has spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, has leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: Genesis 9:19 for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the Patriarchs, Matthew 8:11 while those shall have been…
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