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.
Ver. 14. Deliver me out of the mire] i.e. De civitate Gehennae, from the state of hell, saith the Hebrew scholiast; a out of that deadly danger whereof he had complained, Psalms 69:2. Alphonsus, king of Arragon, by a gracious condescension, helped a laden ass out of the mire with his own hand, and is renowned for it in history (Val. Max. Christ. 41). God helpeth his out full oft, and little notice is taken of it.
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