⁵ Those who once ate delicacies
    are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple^(A)
    now lie on ash heaps.^(B)

⁴ Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;
    no one is concerned for me.
I have no refuge;^(A)
    no one cares^(B) for my life.

“In my distress I called^(A) to the Lord,^(B)
    and he answered me.
From deep in the realm of the dead^(C) I called for help,
    and you listened to my cry.
³ You hurled me into the depths,^(D)
    into the very heart of the seas,
    and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves^(E) and breakers
    swept over me.^(F)
4 I said, ‘I have been banished
    from your sight;^(G)
yet I will look again
    toward your holy temple.’^(H)
5 The engulfing waters threatened me,^[a]
    the deep surrounded me;
    seaweed was wrapped around my head.^(I)
6 To the roots of the mountains^(J) I sank down;
    the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, Lord my God,
    brought my life up from the pit.^(K)

⁷ “When my life was ebbing away,
    I remembered^(L) you, Lord,
and my prayer^(M) rose to you,
    to your holy temple.^(N)

⁸ “Those who cling to worthless idols^(O)
    turn away from God’s love for them.

³ “But you—come here, you children of a sorceress,^(A)
    you offspring of adulterers^(B) and prostitutes!^(C)

²⁰ Such a person feeds on ashes;^(A) a deluded^(B) heart misleads him;
    he cannot save himself, or say,
    “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?^(C)”