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