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Then I thought, “I have been banished from your sight.
    Will I ever be allowed again
    to look upon your holy temple?”
The waters around me rose to my neck,
    and the deep was closing around me;
    seaweed was twined around my head.
Down I plunged to the roots of the mountains,
    sinking to the netherworld
    whose bars would imprison me forever.
But you brought me up alive from the pit,
    Lord, my God.

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The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

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