For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. {midst: Heb. heart}

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted {me} with all thy waves. Selah.

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, {and} my curtains in a moment.

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

I {am} afflicted and ready to die from {my} youth up: {while} I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war {are} against me. {witnesses: that is, plagues}

[A Song of degrees.] Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. {midst: Heb. heart}

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and {if} in the land of peace, {wherein} thou trustedst, {they wearied thee}, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God. {grieved: Heb. bitter}

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, {and} my curtains in a moment.

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted {me} with all thy waves. Selah.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. {when...: Heb. of finding}

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Or darkness, {that} thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: {O} bring thou me out of my distresses.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

[To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, {A Psalm} of David.] Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto {my} soul.

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. {daily: or, all the day}

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: