²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.

²¹ A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

³ For you threw me into the depths, In the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

³⁰ In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵ Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

⁷ Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

⁴ The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

²⁰ In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.

¹⁶ Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

¹⁸ That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?

²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

⁸ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

³⁵ It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty-five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

²⁹ It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.