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¹ A Song. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah, to the chief musician on Mahalath, to make humble. A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah God of my salvation, I have cried in the day, in the night before You.² Let my prayer come before You; bow down Your ear to my cry.³ For my soul is full with evils, and my life touches Sheol.⁴ I am counted with those who go down to the Pit; I have been like a feeble man,⁵ free among the dead, as pierced ones lying in the grave, whom You remember no more; yea by Your hand they are cut off.⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.⁷ Your fury has lain hard upon me, and You afflict me with all Your waves. Selah.⁸ You have taken ones knowing me away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them; I am shut up, I will not go out.⁹ My eye mourns because of affliction; O Jehovah, I have called on You every day; I have spread out my hands to You.

¹⁰ For will You do wonders for those dying? Or shall the departed spirits rise and thank You? Selah.¹¹ Shall Your mercy be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness amidst ruin?¹² Shall Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?¹³ But to You I have cried, O Jehovah; and in the morning my prayer shall go before You.¹⁴ O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul; why do You hide Your face from me?¹⁵ I am afflicted and dying from childhood; I suffer Your terrors; I am distracted.¹⁶ Your fierce wrath goes over me; Your terrors have cut me off.¹⁷ They surrounded me like waters all the day; they have come together around me.¹⁸ You have taken lover and friend far from me, he who knows me, into darkness.