1. "A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite." O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
2. Let my prayer come before you: turn your ear to my cry;
3. For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave.
4. I am counted with those who go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:
5. Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.
6. You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7. Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
8. You have put away my acquaintances far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9. My eye mourns because of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands to you.
10. Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.
11. Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?
12. Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13. But unto you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer go before you.
14. LORD, why do you cast off my soul? why do you hide your face from me?
15. I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am confused.
16. Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
17. They came round about me daily like water; they surrounded me together.
18. Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.
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