⁵⁴ Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

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.

⁴ I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

⁵ The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

⁸ For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

¹⁰ who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

¹⁸ I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

¹⁰ I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

¹¹ I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living: I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

¹² My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.

¹³ I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.

⁴ Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our soul;

⁵ Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

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.

¹ > Save me, God, For the waters have come up to my neck!

² I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

²² As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

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

¹¹ My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.

¹² They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,

¹⁴ If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

¹⁵ Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁶ Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"