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

⁵⁸ And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.

⁸ The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

⁹ His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever.

¹⁰ He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.

¹¹ For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.

¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.

¹⁰ Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.

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

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 To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.

³ In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

⁴ For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

⁵ And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

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

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.

⁸ You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

⁴ For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.

¹⁰ For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds.

¹³ Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.

¹⁰ For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

²⁸ He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

²⁴ And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:

²² And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.