✧1A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You. ✧2May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry. ✧3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. ✧4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. ✧5I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care. ✧6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths. ✧7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah ✧8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
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✧9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
✧10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
✧11Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon ?
✧12Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
✧13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
✧14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
✧15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
✧16Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
✧17All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
✧18You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.