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¹ A song or Psalme of Heman the Ezrahite to giue instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah for him that excelleth vpon Malath Leannoth. O Lorde God of my saluation, I cry day and night before thee.² Let my prayer enter into thy presence: incline thine eare vnto my cry.³ For my soule is filled with euils, and my life draweth neere to the graue.⁴ I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:⁵ Free among the dead, like the slaine lying in the graue, whome thou remembrest no more, and they are cut off from thine hand.⁶ Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit, in darkenes, and in the deepe.⁷ Thine indignation lyeth vpon me, & thou hast vexed me with all thy waues. Selah.⁸ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from me, and made mee to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, and cannot get foorth.⁹ Mine eye is sorowfull through mine affliction: Lorde, I call dayly vpon thee: I stretch out mine hands vnto thee.

¹⁰ Wilt thou shewe a miracle to the dead? or shall the dead rise and prayse thee? Selah.¹¹ Shall thy louing kindenes be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnes in destruction?¹² Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the land of obliuion?¹³ But vnto thee haue I cryed, O Lorde, and early shall my prayer come before thee.¹⁴ Lorde, why doest thou reiect my soule, and hidest thy face from me?¹⁵ I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.¹⁶ Thine indignations goe ouer me, and thy feare hath cut me off.¹⁷ They came round about me dayly like water, and compassed me together.¹⁸ My louers and friends hast thou put away from me, and mine acquaintance hid themselues.