The water rose and covered my head. I thought I was going to die.

众水流过我头，我说：“我命断绝了！”

众水淹没我的头，我说：“我没命了！”

众水淹没我的头，我说：“我没命了！”

水已经漫过我的头，我想我要灭亡了。

水淹过我的头，我说：“我要死了！”

眾水流過我頭，我說：我命斷絕了！

眾水淹沒我的頭，我說：「我沒命了！」

眾水淹沒我的頭，我說：「我沒命了！」

水已經漫過我的頭，我想我要滅亡了。

水淹過我的頭，我說：“我要死了！”

眾水淹過我的頭；我說：「我命絕了！」

水滅我頂、我曰我其亡兮、

水滅我頂、我曰命絶兮。

水滅我頂、或作水流過我首我曰、我命絕矣、

the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.

water closed over my head; I said,‘ I am lost.’

The water rose over my head, and I cried out,“ This is the end!”

Water flooded over my head, and I thought,“ I’m going to die!”

Waters flowed over my head; I said,“ I am cut off!”

The waters flowed over my head; I said,“ I am cut off!”

Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

Water flooded over my head, and I thought: I’m going to die!

Waters flowed over mine head;[ then] I said, I am cut off.

The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die.ק( Qof)

Waters flowed over my head. I said,“ I am cut off.”

You threw me deep into the Mediterranean Sea. I was deep down in its waters. They were all around me. All your rolling waves were sweeping over me.I said,‘ I have been driven away from you. But I will look again toward your holy temple in Jerusalem.’I had almost drowned in the waves. The deep waters were all around me. Seaweed was wrapped around my head.

Then the Lord said to me,“ Son of man, these bones stand for all the people of Israel. The people say,‘ Our bones are dried up. We’ve lost all hope. We are destroyed.’

Don’t let the floods cover me. Don’t let the deep water swallow me up. Don’t let the grave close its mouth over me.

So I say,“ My glory has faded away. My hope in the Lord is gone.”

They would have been like a flood that drowned us. They would have swept over us like a rushing river.They would have washed us away like a swollen stream.

The ropes of death were almost wrapped around me. A destroying flood swept over me.

I said,“ I’m enjoying the best years of my life. Must I now go through the gates of death? Will the rest of my years be taken away from me?”I said,“ Lord, I’ll never see you again while I’m still alive. I’ll never see people anymore. I’ll never again be with those who live in this world.My body is like a shepherd’s tent. It has been pulled down and carried off. My life is like a piece of cloth that I’ve rolled up. You have cut it off from the loom. In a short period of time you have brought my life to an end.I waited patiently until sunrise. But like a lion you broke all my bones. In a short period of time you have brought my life to an end.

I was afraid and said,“ I’ve been cut off from you!” But you heard my cry for your favor. You heard me when I called out to you for help.

God, save me. My troubles are like a flood. I’m up to my neck in them.I’m sinking in deep mud. I have no firm place to stand. I am out in deep water. The waves roll over me.

Brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the hard times we had in Asia Minor. We were having a lot of trouble. It was far more than we could stand. We even thought we were going to die.In fact, we felt as if we were under the sentence of death. But that happened so that we would not depend on ourselves but on God. He raises the dead to life.God has saved us from deadly dangers. And he will continue to do it. We have put our hope in him. He will continue to save us.

My life is almost over. My plans are destroyed. Yet the desires of my heartturn night into day. Even though it’s dark,‘ Light is nearby.’Suppose the only home I can hope for is a grave. And suppose I make my bed in the darkness of death.Suppose I say to the grave,‘ You are like a father to me.’ And suppose I say to its worms,‘ You are like a mother or sister to me.’Then what hope do I have? Who can give me any hope?Will hope go down to the gates of death with me? Will we go down together into the dust of the grave?”