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[1]A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Leader; upon Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. |
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[2]O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, God of my salvation, what time I cry in the night before Thee, |
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[3]Let my prayer come before Thee, incline Thine ear unto my cry. |
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[4]For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. |
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[5]I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am become as a man that hath no help; |
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[6]Set apart among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom rememberest no more; and they are cut off from Thy hand. |
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[7]Thou hast laid me in the nether-most pit, in dark places, in the deeps. |
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[8]Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and all Thy waves Thou pressest down. Selah |
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[9]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. |
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[10]Mine eye languisheth by reason of affliction; I have called upon Thee, O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, every day, I have spread forth my hands unto Thee. |
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[11]Wilt Thou work wonders for the dead? Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks? Selah |
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[12]Shall Thy mercy be declared in the grave? or Thy faithfulness in destruction? |
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[13]Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark? and Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? |
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[14]But as for me, unto Thee, O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, do I cry, and in the morning doth my prayer come to meet Thee. |
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[15]𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, why castest Thou off my soul? Why hidest Thou Thy face from me? |
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[16]I am afflicted and at the point of death from my youth up; I have borne Thy terrors, I am distracted. |
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[17]Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off. |
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[18]They came round about me like water all the day; they compassed me about together. |
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[19]Friend and companion hast Thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. |