In my distress, called I on Yahweh, And, unto my God, made outcry for help, He heard, out of his temple, my voice, And my outcry for help came before him - entered into his ears!

Then he stretched out the heaven, and came down, - and, thick gloom, was under his feet;

At the hearing of the ear, they submitted to me, the sons of the foreigner, came cringing unto me:

The sons of the foreigner, lost heart, and came quaking out of their fortresses.

Until the time when his word came to pass, Speech of Yahweh, proved him;

So Israel came into Egypt, And, Jacob, sojourned in the land of Ham;

He spake, and there came in the gad-fly, Gnats, in all their bounds;

He spake - then came the swarming locust, - The devouring locust, and that without number;

When Israel came forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from among a people of strange tongue,

The meshes of death encompassed me, and the distresses of hades, came upon me, Peril and sorrow, I found;