⁷ Put out your hand from on high; make me free, take me safely out of the great waters, and out of the hands of strange men;

¹ <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

² My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

¹⁶ He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

¹⁵ And he said to me, The waters which you saw, where the evil woman is seated, are peoples, and armies, and nations and languages.

³ The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

⁴ The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

³ For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

⁴⁴ From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

¹⁷ He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

¹⁵ And the snake sent out of his mouth after the woman a river of water, so that she might be taken away by the stream.

¹⁶ And the earth gave help to the woman, and with open mouth took up the river which the dragon sent out of his mouth.

⁴³ He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.

¹¹ Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.

¹¹ Make me free, and take me out of the hands of strange men, in whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

¹⁴ Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

¹⁵ Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

² And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.