¹ Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.^(B)
2 I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep water,
and a flood sweeps over me.^(C)

¹⁸ They hurt his feet with shackles;
his neck was put in an iron collar.^(A)

² and put a knife to your throat
if you have a big^[a] appetite;

⁵⁴ Water flooded over my head,^(A)
and I thought, “I’m going to die!” ^(B)