As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface.
For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.
Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,
They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.
See the ships sailing along, and Leviathan, which you made to play in the sea.
Don’t let the floods overwhelm me, or the deep waters swallow me, or the pit of death devour me.
Then the waters returned and covered all the chariots and charioteers—the entire army of Pharaoh. Of all the Egyptians who had chased the Israelites into the sea, not a single one survived.