I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
David here resembles the twenty-second psalm in lamenting the cruelty of his enemies, though we cannot fix which persecution occasioned it, Saul's or Absalom's. Yet the New Testament quotes it of Christ at least seven times, making clear it is prophetic of Him. David's affliction did not shake his trust in God or weaken his holy conduct; rather, his zeal for God's glory provoked the world's hatred against him.
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Commenting on Psalm 69:1-36
Mire clings and sucks down its victim, worse than drowning; the Saviour's pure soul, born not to this swamp of filth as we are, must have loathed the connection with sin necessary for its expiation. His waters rose above his head, and no promise of refuge was given Him, yet many waters could not quench His love, nor floods drown it.
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When afflictions enter the soul itself, not merely threatening life but disquieting the mind, the spirit becomes wounded and cannot sustain. All that David sought to prop his hope upon failed him; he sank in mire without footing, overwhelmed in deep waters, this points to Christ's inward agony when He cried that His soul was exceedingly sorrowful.
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Commenting on Psalm 69:1-12