Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.

For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb:

and I heard a voice out of the heaven, as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder, and a voice I heard of harpers harping with their harps,

and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.'

By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song is with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,

Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened,

And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe -- not much more you, O ye of little faith?

And the third messenger did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters,

In me doth my soul bow itself, Therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, 'Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God -- the Almighty!

And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.

In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,

And I have given them, and the suburbs of my hill, a blessing, And caused the shower to come down in its season, Showers of blessing they are.

Drop, ye heavens, from above, And clouds do cause righteousness to flow, Earth openeth, and they are fruitful, Salvation and righteousness spring up together, I, Jehovah, have prepared it.

and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,

Jerusalem! mountains are round about her, And Jehovah is round about His people, From henceforth even unto the age.

and saying, 'Sir, deal kindly with my son, for he is lunatic, and doth suffer miserably, for often he doth fall into the fire, and often into the water,

'When a bird's nest cometh before thee in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, brood or eggs, and the mother sitting on the brood or on the eggs, thou dost not take the mother with the young ones;

When Thou dost cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And with all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah.

A Song of the Ascents. From depths I have called Thee, Jehovah.

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul.

Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.

Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty,

The moon and stars to rule by night, For to the age is His kindness.

He is turning the rock to a pool of waters, The flint to a fountain of waters!

Turn round thine eyes from before me, Because they have made me proud. Thy hair is as a row of the goats, That have shone from Gilead,