For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}

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

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken {me} by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

They came {upon me} as a wide breaking in {of waters}: in the desolation they rolled themselves {upon me}.

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. {destroy...: Heb. cut them off}

He hath builded against me, and compassed {me} with gall and travail.

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

They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. {destroy...: Heb. cut them off}

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: {therefore} I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.