Psalms 69:14,15

In his prayer he repeats the words which he had previously used to describe his plight (Psalms 69:2; Psalms 69:4). It is difficult to see why the R.V. has substituted overwhelmfor overflowhere and not in Psalms 69:2, the Heb. word being the same in both cases.

let not the pit&c. Either the grave (Psalms 55:23), or a dungeon (Lamentations 3:53; Lamentations 3:55), may be meant. In the latter case Jeremiah's experience (ch. Psalms 38:6) may have suggested the metaphor; but the words are not to be understood literally of release from Malchiah's dungeon.