¹⁷ See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

²⁵ I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

³⁴ And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

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

¹³ For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

³ O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

¹⁹ He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.

⁴ I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

⁵ My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

⁶ You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

² The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

² He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

⁶ When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved.

⁷ Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.

² The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

¹⁸ Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

²⁵ For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

²⁶ I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.