TSK · Psalms 40:2

I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.

He reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me from the surging water.

He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit.

From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to a rocky summit where I can be safe!

Rescue me from the mud! Don’t let me sink! Deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep water!

For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.

Direct my steps by your word! Do not let any sin dominate me!

Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

So the officials took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern of Malkijah, one of the royal princes, that was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. There was no water in the cistern, only mud. So when they lowered Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes he sank in the mud.

Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

Hearing and Doing“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.