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.

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.

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.

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

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.

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.

Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

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.

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.

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.

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.