“Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.”
The prayer that the flood not sweep over or the deep swallow or the pit close its mouth over the psalmist articulates specific fears about the manner of death and destruction. The accumulation of water imagery (flood, deep, pit) suggests multiple representations of the same danger: overwhelming destruction. This verse expresses the terror of abandonment to destruction without divine intervention.
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