He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and secured my steps.

For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

For a fire has been kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest Sheol; it shall consume the earth with her produce, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they do not know at what they stumble.

He has led me and made me go in darkness and not in light.

I have come as a Light into the world, that everyone believing into Me should not remain in darkness.

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the Great Day;

raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

i1 [A Song of Ascents.] i0 par Out of the depths have I cried out to You, O Jehovah;