The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth, but the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
The flood continued upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
Higher and higher on the earth the waters swelled, until all the highest mountains under the heavens were submerged.
They were snatched before their time; their foundations a river swept away.
There ships ply their course and Leviathan, whom you formed to play with.
Rescue me from the mire, and do not let me sink. Rescue me from those who hate me and from the watery depths.
As the water flowed back, it covered the chariots and the horsemen. Of all Pharaoh’s army which had followed the Israelites into the sea, not even one escaped.