1 Yahweh, the God of my salvation,

I have cried day and night before you.

2 Let my prayer enter into your presence.

Turn your ear to my cry.

3 For my soul is full of troubles.

My life draws near to Sheol.

4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit.

I am like a man who has no help,

5 set apart among the dead,

like the slain who lie in the grave,

whom you remember no more.

They are cut off from your hand.

6 You have laid me in the lowest pit,

in the darkest depths.

7 Your wrath lies heavily on me.

You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

8 You have taken my friends from me.

You have made me an abomination to them.

I am confined, and I can’t escape.

9 My eyes are dim from grief.

I have called on you daily, Yahweh.

I have spread out my hands to you.

10 Do you show wonders to the dead?

Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.

11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?

Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

12 Are your wonders made known in the dark?

Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried.

In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

14 Yahweh, why do you reject 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 around me like water all day long.

They completely engulfed me.

18 You have put lover and friend far from me,

and my friends into darkness.

1 A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the Overcomer: to sing upon Mahalath, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my saving health, I cry day [and] night before Thee;

2 let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my cry;

3 for my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near unto Sheol.

4 I am counted with those that go down into the pit; I am as a man [that has] no strength:

5 Freed among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou dost remember no more; and they are cut off from thy hand.

6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7 Thy wrath lies hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.

8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintances far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them; [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.

9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction; LORD, I have called daily upon thee; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.

11 Shall thy mercy be declared in the grave? [or] thy truth in hell?

12 Shall thy wonder be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

14 LORD, why dost thou cast off my soul? [why] dost thou hide thy face from me?

15 I [am] afflicted and destitute; from [my] youth up I have feared thee and been in awe of thee.

16 Thy fierce wrath goes over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

18 Thou hast put lover and friend far from me, [and placed] my acquaintances into darkness.: