For thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all thy waves and thy billows passed over me.
“For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;
I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.
Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
In my distress I cry to the Lord, that he may answer me:
Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’
“I called on thy name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit;