[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 supplication;[3]For my soul is full of troubles and my life draws near to Sheol.[4]I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am like a man who has no strength;[5]Like a nobleman abandoned among the dead, like the slain that lie down in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more; they are lost to thee.[6]Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the shadow of death.[7]Thy wrath rests hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves.[8]Thou hast put away mine acquaintances far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to them; I am shut up and I cannot come forth.[9]Mine eyes are weakened from weeping; LORD, I have called daily upon thee; I have stretched out my hands to thee.[10]Behold thou wilt show wonders to the dead; the mighty ones shall rise and praise thee.[11]They that are in the graves shall declare thy lovingkindness, and thy faithfulness in destruction.[12]Thy wonders shall be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land that has been forsaken.[13]But to thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come early before thee.[14]O LORD, forsake not my soul, and turn not thy face from me.[15]I am poor and afflicted from my youth; I have been proud, but now I am humbled and crushed.[16]Thy fierce wrath goes over me; thy terrors have silenced me.[17]They came round about me daily like water; they set themselves in array against me.[18]Friends and neighbors thou hast put far from me, and mine acquaintances thou hast kept away from me.