"Save Me, O God"
"Save Me, O God " Psalm sixty-nine turns to tell again of the earthly sorrows of the righteous. Of all the psalms of personal suffering, it is perhaps the most widely known. It opens with a picture of the human soul alone amid the flood waters of sorrow. “Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. “I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me." “I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.” The sufferer confesses to both folly and sin, “O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee,” yet clings earnestly to hope in the infinite mercy of God, “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.” Again and again comes that picture of the rising flood. “Let not the water-flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut ...