| Holman Christian Standard Bible | King James Bible |
| 1A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out before You day and night. | 1A 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 thee: |
| 2May my prayer reach Your presence; listen to my cry. | 2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; |
| 3For I have had enough troubles, and my life is near Sheol. | 3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. |
| 4I am counted among those going down to the Pit. I am like a man without strength, | 4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: |
| 5abandoned among the dead. I am like the slain lying in the grave, whom You no longer remember, and who are cut off from Your care. | 5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. |
| 6You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit, in the darkest places, in the depths. | 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. |
| 7Your wrath weighs heavily on me; You have overwhelmed me with all Your waves. Selah | 7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. |
| 8You have distanced my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them. I am shut in and cannot go out. | 8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. |
| 9My eyes are worn out from crying. LORD, I cry out to You all day long; I spread out my hands to You. | 9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. |
| 10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah | 10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. |
| 11Will Your faithful love be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? | 11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? |
| 12Will Your wonders be known in the darkness or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion? | 12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? |
| 13But I call to You for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer meets You. | 13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. |
| 14 LORD, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me? | 14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? |
| 15From my youth, I have been afflicted and near death. I suffer Your horrors; I am desperate. | 15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. |
| 16Your wrath sweeps over me; Your terrors destroy me. | 16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. |
| 17They surround me like water all day long; they close in on me from every side. | 17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. |
| 18You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me; darkness is my only friend. | 18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. |
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