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¹ [A song or Psalme for the sonnes of Korah, to the chiefe Musician vpon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O Lord God of my saluation, I haue cried day and night before thee. ² Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine eare vnto my cry. ³ For my soule is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh vnto the graue. ⁴ I am counted with them that go downe into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength. ⁵ Free among the dead, like the slaine that lie in the graue, whom thou remembrest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. ⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit: in darkenesse, in the deepes. ⁷ Thy wrath lieth hard vpon me: and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waues. Selah. ⁸ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from mee: thou hast made me an abomination vnto them: I am shut vp, and I cannot come forth. ⁹ Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction, Lord, I haue called daily vpon thee: I haue stretched out my hands vnto thee.

¹⁰ Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shal the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. ¹¹ Shall thy louing kindnesse be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnesse in destruction? ¹² Shall thy wonders be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnesse in the land of forgetfulnesse? ¹³ But vnto thee haue I cried, O Lord, and in the morning shall my prayer preuent thee. ¹⁴ Lord, why castest thou off my soule? why hidest thou thy face from me? ¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die, from my youth vp: while I suffer thy terrours, I am distracted. ¹⁶ Thy fierce wrath goeth ouer me: thy terrours haue cut me off. ¹⁷ They came round about mee daily like water: they compassed mee about together. ¹⁸ Louer and friend hast thou put farre from me: and mine acquaintance into darkenesse.