You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.
Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.
For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
“I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit;
The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.
A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
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