^x“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,

and he answered me;

^yout of the belly of Sheol I cried,

^zand you heard my voice.

3  ^aFor you cast me into the deep,

into the heart of the seas,

and the flood surrounded me;

^ball your breakers and your waves

passed over me.

4  ^cThen I said, ‘I am driven away

from your sight;

^dyet I shall again look

upon your holy temple.’

5  ^eThe waters closed in over me ^fto take my life;

the deep surrounded me;

weeds were wrapped about my head.

6  To 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.