Psalms 88:17

¹⁶For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

¹Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! ²I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

³The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol^[+] a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

³⁹Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads ⁴⁰and saying, “You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

⁴¹Likewise the chief priests also mocking with the scribes, the Pharisees,^[+] and the elders, said, ⁴²“He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. ⁴³He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” ⁴⁴The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

⁵He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. ⁶He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead. ⁷He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

⁴then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul.

¹²I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. ¹³His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.

¹⁴As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin. ¹⁵Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

⁷Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

¹⁰All the nations surrounded me, but in the LORD’s name I cut them off. ¹¹They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the LORD’s name I indeed cut them off. ¹²They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the LORD’s name I cut them off.