⁵ The waters encompassed me up to my neck;
    the deep surrounded me;
    seaweed was wrapped around my head.
⁶ I went down to the foundations of the mountains;
    the Underworld—its bars were around me forever.
But you brought up my life from the pit,
    Yahweh my God.
⁷ When my life was ebbing away from me,
    I remembered Yahweh,
and my prayer came to you,
    to your holy temple.^[a]