Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

For great {is} thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. {hell: or, grave}

He hath led me, and brought {me into} darkness, but not {into} light.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, {and} established my goings. {an...: Heb. a pit of noise}

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. {shall burn: or, hath burned} {shall consume: or, hath consumed}

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

[A Song of degrees.] Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

The way of the wicked {is} as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. {first estate: or, principality}

For great {is} thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. {hell: or, grave}

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}

I sink in deep mire, where {there is} no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. {deep mire: Heb. the mire of depth} {deep waters: Heb. depth of waters}

{Thou}, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

[A Song of degrees.] Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit {was} empty, {there was} no water in it.