"I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God."
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For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
\2:5\The waters encompassed me, even to the soul: the depth inclosed me on every side, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars `are' behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.