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¹ A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; ² O LORD, God of my salvation, what time I cry in the night before Thee,³ Let my prayer come before Thee, incline Thine ear unto my cry.⁴ For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.⁵ I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am become as a man that hath no help;⁶ Set apart among the dead, {N}and they are cut off from Thy hand.⁷ Thou hast laid me in the nethermost pit, in dark places, in the deeps.⁸ Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and all Thy waves Thou pressest down. Selah⁹ Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them; I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

¹⁰ Mine eye languisheth by reason of affliction; ¹¹ Wilt Thou work wonders for the dead? Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks? Selah¹² Shall Thy mercy be declared in the grave? or Thy faithfulness in destruction?¹³ Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark? and Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?¹⁴ But as for me, unto Thee, O LORD, do I cry, and in the morning doth my prayer come to meet Thee.¹⁵ LORD, why castest Thou off my soul? Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?¹⁶ I am afflicted and at the point of death from my youth up; I have borne Thy terrors, I am distracted.¹⁷ Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.¹⁸ They came round about me like water all the day; they compassed me about together.

¹⁹ Friend and companion hast Thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.