For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.
Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’
“For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me;
I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.
Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me.
“I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit;