Psalms 69:2

He is like a man floundering in a morass or quicksand where there is no footing and his struggles only plunge him deeper, or fording a river and in imminent danger of being swept away by the current. Quagmires, -treacherous to the last degree," are common in Palestine. See Thomson's Land and the Book, p. 360; and Dr Tristram's description of the vast and impenetrable swamp of Huleh, where a false step off the roots of the papyrus "will take the intruder over head in suffocating peat mud." Land of Israel, p. 579.

the floods overflow me Or, the current-Shibbôleth," Judges 12:6 sweeps me away.