^{6 Ref} The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

^{7 Ref} I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.

^{8 Ref} When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.

^{6 Ref} To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars `are' behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

^{7 Ref} In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

^{8 Ref} Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.