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| 1A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. LORD, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you. | 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 come before you; turn your ear to my cry. | 2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; |
| 3I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death. | 3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. |
| 4I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength. | 4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: |
| 5I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, 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 pit, in the darkest depths. | 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. |
| 7Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. | 7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. |
| 8You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape; | 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 dim with grief. I call to you, LORD, every day; 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 show your wonders to the dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you? | 10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. |
| 11Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction? | 11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? |
| 12Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion? | 12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? |
| 13But I cry to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you. | 13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. |
| 14Why, LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me? | 14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? |
| 15From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair. | 15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. |
| 16Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me. | 16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. |
| 17All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me. | 17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. |
| 18You have taken from me friend and neighbor-- darkness is my closest friend. | 18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. |
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