^4 (L)The cords of death encompassed me;
    ^(M)the torrents of destruction assailed me;^[a]
5 (N)the cords of Sheol entangled me;
    the snares of death confronted me.

^6 (O)In my distress I called upon the Lord;
    to my God I cried for help.
From his ^(P)temple he heard my voice,
    and my cry to him reached his ears.

⁷ Then the earth ^(Q)reeled and rocked;
    the foundations also of the mountains trembled
    and quaked, because he was angry.
⁸ Smoke went up from his nostrils,^[b]
    and devouring ^(R)fire from his mouth;
    glowing coals flamed forth from him.
⁹ He ^(S)bowed the heavens and ^(T)came down;
    ^(U)thick darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰ He rode on a cherub and flew;
    he came swiftly on ^(V)the wings of the wind.
¹¹ He made darkness his covering, his ^(W)canopy around him,
    thick clouds ^(X)dark with water.
¹² Out of the brightness before him
    ^(Y)hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

¹³ The Lord also ^(Z)thundered in the heavens,
    and the Most High uttered his ^(AA)voice,
    hailstones and coals of fire.
¹⁴ And he sent out his ^(AB)arrows and scattered them;
    he flashed forth lightnings and ^(AC)routed them.
¹⁵ Then ^(AD)the channels of the sea were seen,
    and the foundations of the world were laid bare
at your ^(AE)rebuke, O Lord,
    at the blast of ^(AF)the breath of your nostrils.

¹⁶ He ^(AG)sent from on high, he took me;
    he ^(AH)drew me out of ^(AI)many waters.
¹⁷ He rescued me from my strong enemy
    and from those who hated me,
    for they were ^(AJ)too mighty for me.
¹⁸ They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
    but the Lord was my support.
¹⁹ He brought me out into ^(AK)a broad place;
    he rescued me, because he ^(AL)delighted in me.

²⁰ The Lord dealt with me ^(AM)according to my righteousness;
    according to ^(AN)the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

⁷ “I also ^(C)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^(D)I would send rain on one city,
    and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
    and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
⁸ so two or three cities ^(E)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^(F)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

^9 (G)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
    your many gardens and your vineyards,
    your fig trees and your olive trees ^(H)the locust devoured;
^(I)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹⁰ “I sent among you a pestilence ^(J)after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword,
and ^(K)carried away your horses,^[a]
    and ^(L)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
^(M)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹¹ “I overthrew some of you,
    ^(N)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were ^(O)as a brand^[b] plucked out of the burning;
^(P)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹² “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
    because I will do this to you,
    prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

¹³ For behold, ^(Q)he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
    and ^(R)declares to man what is his thought,
^(S)who makes the morning darkness,
    and ^(T)treads on the heights of the earth—
    ^(U)the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

^(Q)“‘The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone;^[b]
this was the Lord's doing,
    and it is marvelous in our eyes’?