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A Petition to Be Saved from Death.

¹ O LORD, the ^(C1)God of my salvation,
I have ^(C2)cried out for help by day and in the night before You. ^(VR1)

² Let my prayer ^(C1)come before You and enter into Your presence;
^(C2)Incline Your ear to my cry!

³ For my ^(C1)soul is full of troubles,
And ^(C2)my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).

⁴ I am counted among those who ^(C1)go down to the pit (grave);
I am like a man who has ^(C2)no strength a mere shadow,

^5 (F1)Cast away from the living and abandoned ^(C1)among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in a nameless grave,
Whom You no longer remember,
And they are ^(C2)cut off from Your hand.

⁶ You have laid me in ^(C1)the lowest pit,
In ^(C2)dark places, in the ^(C3)depths.

⁷ Your wrath has ^(C1)rested heavily upon me,
And You have afflicted me with ^(C2)all Your waves. ^(VR1) Selah.

⁸ You have put ^(C1)my friends far from me;
You have made me an ^(F1)(C2)object of loathing to them.
I am ^(C3)shut up and I cannot go out.

⁹ My ^(C1)eye grows dim with sorrow.
O LORD, I have ^(C2)called on You every day;
I have ^(C3)spread out my hands to You in prayer.

¹⁰ Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Shall ^(C1)the departed spirits arise and praise You? Selah.

¹¹ Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave
Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?

¹² Will Your wonders be known in the ^(C1)darkness?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness where the dead forget and are forgotten?

¹³ But ^(C1)I have cried out to You, O LORD, for help;
And ^(C2)in the morning my prayer will come to You.

¹⁴ O LORD, why ^(C1)do You reject me?
Why do You ^(C2)hide Your face from me? ^(VR1)

¹⁵ I was afflicted and ^(C1)close to death from my youth on;
I suffer ^(C2)Your terrors; I am overcome.

¹⁶ Your ^(C1)fierce wrath has swept over me;
Your terrors have ^(C2)destroyed me.

¹⁷ They have ^(C1)surrounded me ^(C2)like flood waters all day long;
They have completely ^(C3)encompassed me.

^18 (C1)Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.