“I ^(A)cried out to the Lord because of my affliction,
^(B)And He answered me.

“Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
And You heard my voice.
^3 (C)For You cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the floods surrounded me;
^(D)All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
^4 (E)Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;
Yet I will look again ^(F)toward Your holy temple.’
⁵ The ^(G)waters surrounded me, even to my soul;
The deep closed around me;
Weeds were wrapped around my head.
⁶ I went down to the ^[a]moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my ^(H)life from the pit,
O Lord, my God.

⁷ “When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord;
^(I)And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.

⁸ “Those who regard ^(J)worthless idols
Forsake their own ^[b]Mercy.
⁹ But I will ^(K)sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have ^(L)vowed.
^(M)Salvation is of the ^(N)Lord.”

¹⁶ “For these things I weep;
My eye, ^(A)my eye overflows with water;
Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
Is far from me.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy prevailed.”

³ For my days ^[a]are ^(A)consumed like smoke,
And my bones are burned like a hearth.
⁴ My heart is stricken and withered like grass,
So that I forget to eat my bread.
⁵ Because of the sound of my groaning
My bones cling to my ^[b]skin.

³ When I kept silent, my bones grew old
Through my groaning all the day long.