The ropes of death were wrapped around me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.

[For the choir director: according to "The Lilies." Davidic.] Save me, God, for the water has risen to my neck.

I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing; I have come into deep waters, and a flood sweeps over me.

Rescue me from the miry mud; don't let me sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me, and from the deep waters.

Answer me, LORD, for Your faithful love is good; in keeping with Your great compassion, turn to me.

Ah! The roar of many peoples-- they roar like the roaring of the seas. The raging of the nations-- they rage like the raging of mighty waters.

The nations rage like the raging of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills and like dead thistles before a gale.

Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?

Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers. He boasts: I will go up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities with their residents.

You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current overcame me. All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.

From his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river after the woman, to sweep her away in a torrent.

He also said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and all that fills it resound.

Let the rivers clap their hands; let the mountains shout together for joy

You will indeed go out with joy and be peacefully guided; the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you, and all the trees of the field will clap [their] hands.

Why do the nations rebel and the peoples plot in vain?

"Let us tear off their chains and free ourselves from their restraints."

He spoke and raised a tempest that stirred up the waves of the sea.

Rising up to the sky, sinking down to the depths, their courage melting away in anguish,

then they would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger against us.

the raging waters would have swept over us.

You said through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David Your servant: Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot futile things?

"For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, assembled together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed,