¹ O Lord, the God of my salvation,
I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You.
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Let my prayer come before You and enter into Your presence;
Incline Your ear to my cry!

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For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
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I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave);
I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],
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Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave,
Whom You no longer remember,
And they are cut off from Your hand.

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You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
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Your wrath has rested heavily upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.
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You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them.
I am shut up and I cannot go out.
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My eye grows dim with sorrow.
O Lord, I have called on You every day;
I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].

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Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Shall the departed spirits arise and praise You? Selah.
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Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave
Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?
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Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?

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But I have cried out to You, O Lord, for help;
And in the morning my prayer will come to You.
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O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?
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I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.
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Your fierce wrath has swept over me;
Your terrors have destroyed me.
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They have surrounded me like flood waters all day long;
They have completely encompassed me.
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Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.

¹ I will sing of the goodness and lovingkindness of the Lord forever;
With my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation.