I called to the Lord in my distress,(A)
and he answered me.
I cried out for help from deep inside[a] Sheol;(B)
you heard my voice.(C)
When you threw me into the depths,(D)
into the heart of the seas,(E)
the current[b] overcame me.
All your breakers and your billows swept over me.(F)
And I said, “I have been banished(G)
from your sight,(H)
yet I will look[c] once more
toward your holy temple.”(I)
The water engulfed me up to the neck;[d](J)
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.(K)
I sank to the foundations of the mountains,(L)
the earth’s gates shut behind me forever!(M)
Then you raised my life(N) from the Pit, Lord my God!(O)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:2 Lit from the stomach of
  2. 2:3 Lit river
  3. 2:4 LXX reads sight. Will I look...?
  4. 2:5 Or me, threatening my life

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