“Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.”
The prayer that the flood not sweep over or the deep swallow or the pit close its mouth over the psalmist articulates specific fears about the manner of death and destruction. The accumulation of water imagery (flood, deep, pit) suggests multiple representations of the same danger: overwhelming destruction. This verse expresses the terror of abandonment to destruction without divine intervention.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:15
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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