[1]O lord God of my salvation, I have cried 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 draweth nigh unto the grave.[4]I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:[5]Free 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 darkness, in the deeps.[7]Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.[8]Thou hast put away 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 mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.[10]Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead 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 have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.[14]LORD, 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 goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.[17]They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.[18]Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.