¹ Save me, O God,
    for the waters^(A) have come up to my neck.^(B)
2 I sink in the miry depths,^(C)
    where there is no foothold.
I have come into the deep waters;
    the floods engulf me.

² He lifted me out of the slimy pit,^(A)
    out of the mud^(B) and mire;^(C)
he set my feet^(D) on a rock^(E)
    and gave me a firm place to stand.