<p class="poetry">When my life<n id="1" /> was ebbing away,<n id="2" /> I called out to<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">and my prayer came to your holy temple.<n id="4" />p>

He prayed to the <sc>Lordsc> and said, &#8220;Oh, <sc>Lordsc>, this is just what I thought<n id="1" /> would happen<n id="2" /> when I was in my own country.<n id="3" /> This is what I tried to prevent<n id="4" /> by attempting to escape to Tarshish!<n id="5" /> &#8211; because I knew<n id="6" /> that you are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger<n id="7" /> and abounding<n id="8" /> in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.<n id="9" />

Hearing this,<n id="1" /> the men became even more afraid<n id="2" /> and said to him, &#8220;What have you done?&#8221; (The men said this because they knew that he was trying to escape<n id="3" /> from the <sc>Lord,sc><n id="4" /> because he had previously told them.<n id="5" />)