(A)I sink in deep mire,
Where there is no standing;
I have come into deep waters,
Where the floods overflow me.

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I sink in the miry depths,(A)
    where there is no foothold.
I have come into the deep waters;
    the floods engulf me.

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(A)For You cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the floods surrounded me;
(B)All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
(C)Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;
Yet I will look again (D)toward Your holy temple.’
The (E)waters surrounded me, even to my soul;
The deep closed around me;
Weeds were wrapped around my head.

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You hurled me into the depths,(A)
    into the very heart of the seas,
    and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves(B) and breakers
    swept over me.(C)
I said, ‘I have been banished
    from your sight;(D)
yet I will look again
    toward your holy temple.’(E)
The engulfing waters threatened me,[a]
    the deep surrounded me;
    seaweed was wrapped around my head.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:5 Or waters were at my throat