When you threw me into the depths,(A)
into the heart of the seas,(B)
the current[a] overcame me.
All your breakers and your billows swept over me.(C)
And I said, “I have been banished(D)
from your sight,(E)
yet I will look[b] once more
toward your holy temple.”(F)
The water engulfed me up to the neck;[c](G)
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:3 Lit river
  2. 2:4 LXX reads sight. Will I look...?
  3. 2:5 Or me, threatening my life

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