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Incline Your Ear to My Cry

¹ O Yahweh, the ^(C1)God of my salvation,
I have ^(C2)cried out by day and throughout the night before You.

² Let my prayer ^(C1)come before You;
^(C2)Incline Your ear to my cry of lamentation!

³ For my ^(C1)soul has been saturated with calamities,
And ^(C2)my life has reached Sheol.

⁴ I am counted among those who ^(C1)go down to the pit;
I am like a man ^(C2)without strength,

⁵ Released ^(C1)among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And they are ^(C2)cut off from Your hand.

⁶ You have put me in ^(C1)the pit far below,
In ^(C2)dark places, in the ^(C3)depths.

⁷ Your wrath ^(C1)lies upon me,
And You afflict me with ^(C2)all Your breaking waves. ^Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude">(F1)Selah.

⁸ You have removed ^(C1)my acquaintances far from me;
You have set me as ^(F1)an ^(C2)abomination to them;
I am ^(C3)shut up and cannot go out.

⁹ My ^(C1)eye has wasted away because of affliction;
I have ^(C2)called upon You every day, O Yahweh;
I have ^(C3)spread out my ^(F1)hands to You.

¹⁰ Will You do wonders for the dead?
Will ^(C1)the ^(F1)departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.

¹¹ Will Your lovingkindness be recounted in the grave,
Your faithfulness in ^(F1)Abaddon?

¹² Will Your wonders be known in the ^(C1)darkness?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³ But as for me, O Yahweh, I have cried out ^(C1)to You for help,
And ^(C2)in the morning my prayer comes before You.

¹⁴ O Yahweh, why ^(C1)do You reject my soul?
Why do You ^(C2)hide Your face from me?

¹⁵ I have been afflicted and ^(C1)about to breathe my last from my youth on;
I bear ^(C2)Your terrors; I am ^(F1)overcome.

¹⁶ Your ^(C1)burning anger has passed over me;
Your horrors have ^(F1)(C2)destroyed me.

¹⁷ They have ^(C1)surrounded me ^(C2)like water all day long;
They have ^(C3)encompassed me altogether.

¹⁸ You have removed ^(C1)lover and friend far from me;
My acquaintances are in darkness.