“I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.”
The continuation that the psalmist has exhausted the voice from crying and the eyes fail while waiting for God articulates the physical and emotional toll of persistent suffering and prayer. The exhaustion of the voice from crying suggests that the psalmist has poured out complete expression of anguish. The failure of eyes while waiting indicates that hope itself has become painful; the strain of anticipating divine response has depleted physical resources. This verse emphasizes the sustainability of suffering: it continues beyond what human endurance is designed to bear.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:2
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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