I called to the Lord in my distress,(A)
and he answered me.
I cried out for help from deep inside[a] Sheol;(B)
you heard my voice.(C)
When you threw me into the depths,(D)
into the heart of the seas,(E)
the current[b] overcame me.
All your breakers and your billows swept over me.(F)
And I said, “I have been banished(G)
from your sight,(H)
yet I will look[c] once more
toward your holy temple.”(I)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:2 Lit from the stomach of
  2. 2:3 Lit river
  3. 2:4 LXX reads sight. Will I look...?

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