The danger of death was all around me; the waves of destruction rolled over me.

Save me, O God! The water is up to my neck;

I am sinking in deep mud, and there is no solid ground; I am out in deep water, and the waves are about to drown me.

Save me from sinking in the mud; keep me safe from my enemies, safe from the deep water.

Answer me, LORD, in the goodness of your constant love; in your great compassion turn to me!

Powerful nations are in commotion with a sound like the roar of the sea, like the crashing of huge waves.

The nations advance like rushing waves, but God reprimands them and they retreat, driven away like dust on a mountainside, like straw in a whirlwind.

Who is this that rises like the Nile, like a river flooding its banks?

It is Egypt, rising like the Nile, like a river flooding its banks. Egypt said, 'I will rise and cover the world; I will destroy cities and the people who live there.

You threw me down into the depths, to the very bottom of the sea, where the waters were all around me, and all your mighty waves rolled over me.

And then from his mouth the dragon poured out a flood of water after the woman, so that it would carry her away.

The angel also said to me, "The waters you saw, on which the prostitute sits, are nations, peoples, races, and languages.

Be glad, earth and sky! Roar, sea, and every creature in you;

Clap your hands, you rivers; you hills, sing together with joy before the LORD,

"You will leave Babylon with joy; you will be led out of the city in peace. The mountains and hills will burst into singing, and the trees will shout for joy.

Why do the nations plan rebellion? Why do people make their useless plots?

"Let us free ourselves from their rule," they say; "let us throw off their control."

He commanded, and a mighty wind began to blow and stirred up the waves.

The ships were lifted high in the air and plunged down into the depths. In such danger the sailors lost their courage;

then they would have swallowed us alive in their furious anger against us;

the raging torrent would have drowned us."

By means of the Holy Spirit you spoke through our ancestor David, your servant, when he said, 'Why were the Gentiles furious; why did people make their useless plots?

For indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together in this city with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Jesus, your holy Servant, whom you made Messiah.