1 O Lord, God of my salvation, ♦︎
I have cried day and night before you.
2 Let my prayer come into your presence; ♦︎
incline your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is full of troubles; ♦︎
my life draws near to the land of death.
4 I am counted as one gone down to the Pit; ♦︎
I am like one that has no strength,
5 Lost among the dead, ♦︎
like the slain who lie in the grave,
6 Whom you remember no more, ♦︎
for they are cut off from your hand.
7 You have laid me in the lowest pit, ♦︎
in a place of darkness in the abyss.
8 Your anger lies heavy upon me, ♦︎
and you have afflicted me with all your waves.
9 You have put my friends far from me ♦︎
and made me to be abhorred by them.
10 I am so fast in prison that I cannot get free; ♦︎
my eyes fail from all my trouble.
11 Lord, I have called daily upon you; ♦︎
I have stretched out my hands to you.
12 Do you work wonders for the dead? ♦︎
Will the shades stand up and praise you?
13 Shall your loving-kindness be declared in the grave, ♦︎
your faithfulness in the land of destruction?
14 Shall your wonders be known in the dark ♦︎
or your righteous deeds in the land where all is forgotten?
15 But as for me, O Lord, I will cry to you; ♦︎
early in the morning my prayer shall come before you.
16 Lord, why have you rejected my soul? ♦︎
Why have you hidden your face from me?
17 I have been wretched and at the point of death from my youth; ♦︎
I suffer your terrors and am no more seen.
18 Your wrath sweeps over me; ♦︎
your horrors are come to destroy me;
19 All day long they come about me like water; ♦︎
they close me in on every side.
20 Lover and friend have you put far from me ♦︎
and hid my companions out of my sight.
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1 O Lord, God of my salvation,
when, at night, I cry out in your presence,
2 let my prayer come before you;
incline your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is full of troubles,
and my life draws near to Sheol.
4 I am counted among those who go down to the Pit;
I am like those who have no help,
5 like those forsaken among the dead,
like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom you remember no more,
for they are cut off from your hand.
6 You have put me in the depths of the Pit,
in the regions dark and deep.
7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me,
and you overwhelm me with all your waves.
Selah
8 You have caused my companions to shun me;
you have made me a thing of horror to them.
I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
9 my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call on you, O Lord;
I spread out my hands to you.
10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
Do the shades rise up to praise you?
Selah
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