1 'n Lied, 'n Psalm van die kinders van Korag, Vir die musiekleier; op die wysie van: "M halat leannot." 'n Onderwysing van Heman, die Esrahiet.

2 HERE, God van my heil, bedags roep ek, in die nag is dit voor U.

3 Laat my gebed voor u aangesig kom, neig u oor tot my smeking.

4 Want my siel is sat van teëspoede, en my lewe raak aan die doderyk.

5 Ek word gereken by die wat in die kuil neerdaal; ek het geword soos 'n man sonder krag,

6 vrygelaat onder die dooies, soos die wat verslaan is, wat in die graf lê, aan wie U nie meer dink nie, en wat afgesny is van u hand.

7 U het my gesit in die kuil diep daaronder, in duisternisse, in dieptes.

8 U grimmigheid rus op my, en U druk my neer met al u golwe. Sela.

9 U het my bekendes ver van my verwyder, my iets afskuweliks gemaak vir hulle; ek is ingesluit en kan nie uitkom nie.

10 My oog vergaan van ellende. HERE, ek roep U aan die hele dag deur, ek brei my hande na U uit.

11 Kan U aan die dooies 'n wonder doen? Of kan skimme opstaan, kan hulle U loof? Sela.

12 Kan u goedertierenheid vertel word in die graf, u trou in die plek van vertering?

13 Kan u wondermag in die duisternis bekend word en u geregtigheid in die land van vergetelheid?

14 Maar ,k, HERE, roep U aan om hulp, en in die môre kom my gebed U tegemoet.

15 HERE, waarom verstoot U my siel, verberg U u aangesig vir my?

16 Van jongs af is ek ellendig en klaar om te sterwe; ek dra u verskrikkinge, ek is radeloos.

17 U toorngloed het oor my gegaan; u verskrikkinge vernietig my;

18 die hele dag omring hulle my soos water, saam omsingel hulle my. [ (Psalms 88:19) U het vriend en metgesel ver van my verwyder; my bekendes is duisternis. ]

1 O Jehovah, the God of my salvation,

I have cried day and night before thee.

2 Let my prayer enter into thy presence;

Incline thine ear unto my cry.

3 For my soul is full of troubles,

And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit;

I am as a man that hath no help,

5 Cast off among the dead,

Like the slain that lie in the grave,

Whom thou rememberest no more,

And they are cut off from thy hand.

6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit,

In dark places, in the deeps.

7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,

And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. [Selah

8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me;

Thou hast made me an abomination unto them:

I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

9 Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction:

I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah;

I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead?

Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? [Selah

11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?

Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?

12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?

And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried;

And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

14 Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul?

Why hidest thou thy face from me?

15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up:

While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me;

Thy 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 hast thou put far from me,

And mine acquaintance into darkness.