For the thing I had dreaded with terror has come upon me, and what I had feared has come to me.

I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for turmoil came.

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

O Jehovah, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.

O Jehovah, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the Pit.

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.

I am reckoned with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man with no strength,

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.

I went down to the bases of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me forever. Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.

The wicked in his pride persecutes the lowly; let them be caught in the plots that they have devised.

You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin. Selah

And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Jehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.

Who is a Mighty God like You, forgiving iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His possession? His anger does not remain strong forever, for He delights in mercy.

He will return and have compassion on us; He will subdue our iniquities. And You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.