⁵⁴ the waters closed over my head,^(A)
    and I thought I was about to perish.^(B)

⁵⁵ I called on your name, Lord,
    from the depths^(C) of the pit.^(D)
56 You heard my plea:^(E) “Do not close your ears
    to my cry for relief.”
⁵⁷ You came near^(F) when I called you,
    and you said, “Do not fear.”^(G)

⁵⁸ You, Lord, took up my case;^(H)
    you redeemed my life.^(I)

²² In my alarm^(A) I said,
    “I am cut off^(B) from your sight!”
Yet you heard my cry^(C) for mercy
    when I called to you for help.

“In my distress I called^(A) to the Lord,^(B)
    and he answered me.
From deep in the realm of the dead^(C) I called for help,
    and you listened to my cry.
³ You hurled me into the depths,^(D)
    into the very heart of the seas,
    and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves^(E) and breakers
    swept over me.^(F)
4 I said, ‘I have been banished
    from your sight;^(G)
yet I will look again
    toward your holy temple.’^(H)
5 The engulfing waters threatened me,^[a]
    the deep surrounded me;
    seaweed was wrapped around my head.^(I)
6 To the roots of the mountains^(J) I sank down;
    the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, Lord my God,
    brought my life up from the pit.^(K)

⁷ “When my life was ebbing away,
    I remembered^(L) you, Lord,
and my prayer^(M) rose to you,
    to your holy temple.^(N)

⁸ “Those who cling to worthless idols^(O)
    turn away from God’s love for them.

¹⁸ So I say, “My splendor is gone
    and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”^(A)

⁸ Even when I call out or cry for help,^(A)
    he shuts out my prayer.^(B)