²¹ For it is always in your power to show great strength,
and who can withstand the might of your arm?

21 The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;
    he turns it wherever he will.

² For he afflicts, and he shows mercy;
    he leads down to Hades in the lowest regions of the earth,
    and he brings up from the great abyss,^[a]
    and there is nothing that can escape his hand.