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¹ O God the Lorde of my saluation, I crye day and night before thee: ² let my prayer enter into thy presence, encline thyne eare vnto my crying.³ For my soule is full of miserie: and my life toucheth the graue.⁴ I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit: and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength.⁵ I am free among the dead: like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue, whom thou remembrest no more, and are cut away from thy hande.⁶ Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit: in darknes and in deepenes.⁷ Thyne indignation sore presseth me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes. Selah.⁸ Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre fro me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, I can not get foorth.⁹ My sight fayleth through my affliction O God: I haue called dayly vpon thee, I haue stretched out mine handes vnto thee.

¹⁰ Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead? or shal the dead rise vp againe [and] acknowledge thee? Selah.¹¹ Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue? or thy faythfulnes in destruction?¹² Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes?¹³ But vnto thee do I crye O God: and my prayer commeth early in the morning before thee.¹⁴ O God, why abhorrest thou my soule: and [why] hidest thou thy face from me?¹⁵ I am in miserie, I labour euen from my youth with the panges of death: I haue suffered thy terrours, [and] I am styll in doubt.¹⁶ Thyne indignation hath gone ouer me: and thy terrours haue vndone me.¹⁷ They came rounde about me dayly lyke water: and compassed me altogether on euery syde.¹⁸ Thou hast put a way farre from me my frende and neighbour: [thou hast hid] mine acquaintaunce out of sight.