[1]{A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the Ezrahite.} Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day [and] in the 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 to Sheol.[4]I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:[5]Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.[6]Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.[7]Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.[8]Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.[9]Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.[10]Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah.[11]Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction?[12]Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?[13]But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.[14]Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?[15]I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.[16]Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought:[17]They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together.[18]Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.