I Cry Out Day and Night Before You
A Song. A Psalm of Ps. 42, titlethe Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Ps. 53, titleMahalath Leannoth. A Maskil88:1 Probably musical or liturgical terms of 1 Kgs. 4:31;1 Chr. 2:6Heman the Ezrahite.
1 O Lord, See Ps. 24:5God of my salvation,
I Ps. 22:2;Luke 18:7cry out day and night before you.
2 Let my prayer come before you;
See Ps. 31:2incline your ear to my cry!
3 For my soul is full of troubles,
and [Ps. 107:18] my life draws near to See Ps. 16:10Sheol.
4 I am counted among those who See Ps. 28:1go down to the pit;
I am a man who has no strength,
5 like one set loose among the dead,
like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom [Ps. 31:12] you remember no more,
for they are Isa. 53:8cut off from your hand.
6 You have put me in [Ps. 63:9] the depths of the pit,
in the ver. 12, 18;Ps. 143:3;Lam. 3:6regions dark and Ps. 69:15deep.
7 Your wrath [Ps. 32:4] lies heavy upon me,
and you overwhelm me with Ps. 42:7all your waves. Selah
8 You have caused ver. 18;Ps. 142:4;See Job 19:13my companions to shun me;
you have made me Job 30:10a horror88:8 Or an abomination to them.
I am Jer. 32:2shut in so that I cannot escape;
9 [Ps. 6:7] my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O Lord;
I See Job 11:13spread out my hands to you.
10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
[Ps. 6:5]Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your Ps. 89:5wonders known in ver. 6;Job 10:21the darkness,
or your righteousness in the land of [Eccles. 9:5]forgetfulness?
13 But I, O Lord, cry Ps. 30:2to you;
See Ps. 5:3in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14 O Lord, why See Ps. 44:9do you cast my soul away?
Why See Job 13:24do you hide your face from me?
15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.88:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
your Job 6:4;9:34dreadful assaults destroy me.
17 They See Ps. 118:10-12surround me like a flood Ps. 86:3all day long;
they Ps. 18:4;22:16;[Ps. 118:10]close in on me together.
18 You have caused See Job 19:13,14my beloved and my friend to shun me;
my companions have become darkness.88:18 Or darkness has become my only companion