³⁴ Can you command^[a] the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?^(A)

¹ Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.^(A)
2 I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep waters,
and a flood sweeps over me.^(B)

⁵⁴ Water flooded over my head,^(A)
and I thought: I’m going to die!^(B)