Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
⛓ Read Psalm 69 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck... I sink in deep mire.' Peter's sinking cry, 'Lord, save me!' echoes the psalmist's drowning plea, casting Peter's near-drowning in the language of the lament for rescue from the waters.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'A night and a day in the deep,' perils of waters and being engulfed, resonate with the lament psalmist sinking in deep waters where the floods overwhelm him, a classic image of the righteous sufferer's distress. Volume is faint and the danger is literal for Paul, so flagged low and contested.
Low confidenceThe 'baptism' of overwhelming suffering pairs with the cup; the engulfing-waters imagery of the righteous sufferer ('the waters have come up to my neck') is a faint background for being 'baptized' with suffering.
Low confidence