The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

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

He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

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

It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;