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¹ A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.² Let my prayer enter into your presence; Incline your ear to my cry.³ For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near to Sheol.⁴ I am reckoned with those that go down into the pit; I am as an [able-bodied] man without strength,⁵ Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more, And they are cut off from your hand.⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.⁷ Your wrath lies hard on me, And you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.⁸ You have put my acquaintances far from me; You have made me disgusting to them: I am shut up, and I can't come forth.⁹ My eye wastes away by reason of affliction: I have called daily on you, O Yahweh; I have spread forth my hands to you.

¹⁰ Will you show wonders to the dead? Shall those that are deceased arise and praise you? Selah.¹¹ Shall your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?¹² Shall your wonders be known in the dark? And your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?¹³ But to you, O Yahweh, I have cried; And in the morning my prayer shall come before you.¹⁴ Yahweh, why do you cast off my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer your terrors I am distracted.¹⁶ Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your terrors have cut me off.¹⁷ They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.¹⁸ Lover and friend you have put far from me, And my acquaintances into darkness.