Psalms 69:1-2
Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck. I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Psalms 69
16 songs meet this passage
“I'm looking at my lifespan, I'm drowning”
Xenophile · Azizi Gibson
strains against Psalms 69:1-2
The psalmist drowns in despair too, but cries out to God for rescue; here the drowning is left unanswered, with no one to call to.
“Should I sink or swim? Or simply disappear?”
Sleepwalking · Bring Me The Horizon
resonates with Psalms 69:1-2
The psalmist's image of sinking in deep waters with no foothold matches this same fear of being overwhelmed and vanishing.
“Step right off the ledge”
The Abyss · Three Days Grace
strains against Psalms 69:1-2
The psalmist cries out from the depths to God for rescue; here the narrator steps further into the depths with no cry for help at all.
“we're too young to drown deep in dirty waters”
Slow It Down · Benson Boone
resonates with Psalms 69:1-2
The imagery of drowning and being pulled out echoes the psalmist's cry for rescue from overwhelming waters.
Someone You Loved · Lewis Capaldi
resonates with Psalms 69:1-2
This is the language of the Psalmist sinking in deep waters, crying for rescue; the song shares that same raw vulnerability.
“So I stepped off the Golden”
everything i wanted · Billie Eilish
resonates with Psalms 69:1-2
The imagery of drowning and being unseen mirrors the psalmist's cry of being overwhelmed with no foothold.
“But I'm holding on for dear life”
Chandelier · Sia
resonates with Psalms 69:1-2
The cry 'help me' and the imagery of barely staying afloat echoes the Psalmist's own plea from the depths, though here without a clear rescuer named.
“The ground beneath my feet is open wide”
Story Of My Life · One Direction
resonates with Psalms 69:1-2
The imagery of sinking ground and instability echoes the psalmist's cry of being overwhelmed with no foothold.
“Rescue me before I fall into despair-o”
Message In A Bottle (Remastered 2003) · The Police
resonates with Psalms 69:1-2
The cry for rescue before being overwhelmed mirrors the psalmist's plea from the depths of isolation.
“A tide that is taking me under”
Speechless (Full) · Naomi Scott
resonates with Psalms 69:1-2
The psalmist voices the same drowning, overwhelmed feeling, showing lament itself is not unfaithful but honest.
“My walls are closing in”
Crawling · LINKIN PARK
resonates with Psalms 69:1-2
The image of sinking with no foothold matches the suffocating pressure described in the lyric.
Jesus Walks · Kanye West
resonates with Psalms 69:1-3
The exhaustion and fear of being unheard mirrors the psalmist's cry from the depths, still addressed to God.
“I've become so numb, I can't feel you there”
Numb · LINKIN PARK
resonates with Psalms 69:1-3
The psalmist's cry of exhaustion and feeling unheard mirrors the numbness described here; both are raw laments rather than resolutions.
“Thought I found a way out”
lovely · Billie Eilish & Khalid
resonates with Psalms 69:1-3
The exhausted search for a way out of deep water mirrors this psalm's cry of being sunk in mire with no foothold.
“Like a hurt, lost and blinded fool, fool”
Losing My Religion · R.E.M.
resonates with Psalms 69:1-3
The self-description of being lost and overwhelmed by feeling echoes the Psalmist's cry of being sunk in deep waters with no foothold.
“Fix me!”
Master of Puppets · Metallica
resonates with Psalms 69:1-3
This cry for rescue briefly echoes the psalmist's desperate plea from the depths, though the song gives it no answer, unlike the psalm's eventual turn toward God.
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