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¹ Lord, you are the God who saves me.
    I cry out to you day and night.
² Receive my prayer,
    and listen to my cry.

³ My life is full of troubles,
    and I am nearly dead.
⁴ They think I am on the way to my grave.
    I am like a man with no strength.
⁵ I have been left as dead,
    like a body lying in a grave
whom you don't remember anymore,
    cut off from your care.
⁶ You have brought me close to death;
    I am almost in the dark place of the dead.
⁷ You have been very angry with me;
    all your waves crush me. Selah
⁸ You have taken my friends away from me
    and have made them hate me.
I am trapped and cannot escape.
⁹ My eyes are weak from crying.
Lord, I have prayed to you every day;
    I have lifted my hands in prayer to you.

¹⁰ Do you show your miracles for the dead?
    Do their spirits rise up and praise you? Selah

¹¹ Will your love be told in the grave?
    Will your loyalty be told in the place of death?
¹² Will your miracles be known in the dark grave?
    Will your goodness be known in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³ But, Lord, I have called out to you for help;
    every morning I pray to you.
¹⁴ Lord, why do you reject me?
    Why do you hide from me?
¹⁵ I have been weak and dying since I was young.
    I suffer from your terrors, and I am helpless.
¹⁶ You have been angry with me,
    and your terrors have destroyed me.
¹⁷ They surround me daily like a flood;
    they are all around me.
¹⁸ You have taken away my loved ones and friends.
    Darkness is my only friend.