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Psalm 69:2 (WEB)
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Fathers and councils · 10

Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius III.2Book III
“…were, dwelling in a cave by reason of thinking of things beneath (as is the life of those who live in sin, who “stick fast in the deep mire where no ground is,” whose life is truly a pit, as the Psalm says, “let not the pit shut her mouth upon me”)—if, I say, a man, when Wisdom is begotten in him, thinks of the…” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 2.
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Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.8On Virginity
“It is not every man’s gift, owing to weakness of nature, to hit the due proportion in these matters; there is a danger of being carried far beyond it, and “sticking fast in the deep mire,” to use the Psalmist’s words.” — editor's note: ἰλύν, a better reading than ὕλην. Cf. Ps. lxix. 2, “the mire of depth” (ἰλὺν βυθοῦ).
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Gregory the Great, Epistles, Books I–VIII I.5Book I
“On every side I am tossed by the waves of business, and sunk by storms, so that I may truly say, I am come into the depth of the sea, and the storm hath overwhelmed me (Ps. lxviii. 3).” — the author cites it
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Gregory the Great, Epistles, Books I–VIII I.7Book I
“I am tossed by the billows of a multitude of affairs, and, after the ease of my former quiet, am afflicted by the storms of a tumultuous life, so that I may truly say, I am come into the depth of the sea, and the storm hath overwhelmed me (Ps. lxviii. 3).” — the author cites it
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Gregory the Great, Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.15Book VII
“But on the other hand, I am come into the depth of the sea, and the storm hath overwhelmed me (Ps. lxviii. 3).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 69
““Fixed I am in the clay of the deep, and there is no substance” (ver. 2).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 116
““For I lying, stuck fast in the deep mire,” in another Psalm also have cried out, “Behold, Thou hast made my days old;” in these days of mine have I called upon Thee.” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 25
“…raged against Him, to which He yielded voluntarily for our sakes, that that prophecy, “I am come into the depths of the sea, and the floods overflow Me,” might be fulfilled.” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 2.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 2
“…the tide which tosses and whirls us hither and thither, by the aid of our senses and other sources of the pleasures of this life; and against the miry clay in which we have been fixed; and against the law of sin, which wars against the law of the spirit, and strives to destroy the royal image in us, and all the…” — editor's note: Ps. xl. 2; lxix. 2.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 7
“…contrary distressed at our lengthened sojourn, like holy David, who calls things here the tents of darkness, and the place of affliction, and the deep mire, and the shadow of death; because we linger in the tombs we bear about with us, because, though we are gods, we die like men the death of sin?” — editor's note: Ib. xliv. 19 (LXX.); lxix. 2.
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