The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.

They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.

When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.

Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of Jehovah tried him.

Israel also came into Egypt; And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

He spake, and there came swarms of flies, And lice in all their borders.

He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number,

Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.

It is like the precious oil upon the head, That ran down upon the beard, Even Aaron's beard; That came down upon the skirt of his garments;