For the end, for alternate [strains] by the sons of Korah; for instruction, A song concerning the beloved. My heart has uttered a good matter; I declare my works to the king; my tongue is the pen of a quick writer.

For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he [had] burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria of Zobah; and Joab [had] returned and struck twelve thousand[in] the Valley of Salt. O God, You have rejected and destroyed us; You have been angry, yet [You] have pitied us.

For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony of Asaph, A Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guides Joseph like a flock; You who sit upon the cherubim, manifest Yourself;

I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I have come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

Save me from the mire, that I stick not [in it;] let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

Let not the floodwater drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; all Your billows and Your waves have gone over me.

And I will cause judgment [to be] for hope, and My compassion shall be for [just] measures, and you that trust vainly in falsehood [shall fall]; for the storm shall by no means pass by you,

And if you pass through water, I am with you; and the rivers shall not overflow you; and if you go through the fire, you shall not be burned; the flame shall not burn you.

Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.

[ 2:4] For You have cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all Your billows and Your waves have passed upon me.

[ 2:6] Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down

And the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a river after the woman, so that he might cause her to be carried off by the river.

But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river which the dragon had cast out of his mouth.

Then he said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.