Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners,
To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. Of David. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.
And the angel said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood. But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.
The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring. Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty!
For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah
As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.
“He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.
He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters. Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.
And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
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