And I said, “I have been banished(A)
from your sight,(B)
yet I will look[a] once more
toward your holy temple.”(C)
The water engulfed me up to the neck;[b](D)
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.(E)
I sank to the foundations of the mountains,(F)
the earth’s gates shut behind me forever!(G)
Then you raised my life(H) from the Pit, Lord my God!(I)

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Footnotes

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

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