15 Let not the flood sweep over me,
    or the deep swallow me up,
    or (A)the pit close (B)its mouth over me.

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15 The serpent poured water (A)like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood. 16 But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.

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31 he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that (A)he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

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saying,

(A)“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
    and he answered me;
(B)out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
    (C)and you heard my voice.
(D)For you cast me into the deep,
    into the heart of the seas,
    and the flood surrounded me;
(E)all your waves and your billows
    passed over me.
(F)Then I said, ‘I am driven away
    from your sight;
(G)yet I shall again look
    upon your holy temple.’
(H)The waters closed in over me (I)to take my life;
    the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
    at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
    whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
    O Lord my God.
When my life was fainting away,
    I remembered the Lord,
(J)and my prayer came to you,
    into your holy temple.

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Israel's Only Savior

43 But now thus says the Lord,
(A)he who created you, O Jacob,
    he who formed you, O Israel:
(B)“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
    (C)I have called you by name, you are mine.
(D)When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
    and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
(E)when you walk through fire (F)you shall not be burned,
    and the flame shall not consume you.

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then (A)the flood would have (B)swept us away,
    the torrent would have gone (C)over us;
then over us would have gone
    the raging waters.

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I am counted among those who (A)go down to the pit;
    I am a man who has no strength,
like one set loose among the dead,
    like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom (B)you remember no more,
    for they are (C)cut off from your hand.
You have put me in (D)the depths of the pit,
    in the (E)regions dark and (F)deep.

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10 For you will not abandon my soul to (A)Sheol,
    (B)or let your (C)holy one see (D)corruption.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:10 Or see the pit

33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and (A)they perished from the midst of the assembly. 34 And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

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40 For (A)just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, (B)so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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