New Revised Standard Version
They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their calamity;

Contemporary English Version
You were tossed to the sky and to the ocean depths, until things looked so bad that you lost your courage.

New American Bible
They rose up to the heavens, sank to the depths; their hearts trembled at the danger.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.

They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.

their soul

Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 119:28 My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.

2 Samuel 17:10 And the most valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall melt for fear: for all the people of Israel know thy father to be a valiant man, and that all who are with him are valiant.

Isaiah 13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,

Nahum 2:10 She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.