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

^tand he answered me;

out of the belly of Sheol I cried,

and you heard my voice.

3  For you cast me into the deep,

into the heart of the seas,

and the flood surrounded me;

^uall your breakers and your waves

passed over me.

4  Then I said, ^v‘I am driven away

from your sight;

yet I shall again look

upon your holy temple.’

5  The waters closed in over me to 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.

7  When my life was fainting away,

I remembered the Lord,

and ^wmy prayer came to you,

^xinto your holy temple.

8  Those who pay regard to ^yvain idols

forsake their hope of steadfast love.

9  But I with the voice of thanksgiving

will sacrifice to you;

what I have vowed I will pay.

^zSalvation belongs to the Lord!”