A song, a psalm, for the sons of Korah. To the chief musician upon Mahalath and Leannoth; an instruction of Heman the Ezrahite.{HR}O Jehovah, God of my salvation,{HR}[By] day have I cried,{HR}And in the night before thee.
Let my prayer come before thee;{HR}Incline thine ear to my cry.
For my soul is full of troubles,{HR}And my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
I am counted with those that descend to the pit,{HR}I am as a man without strength:
Among the dead free, as the slain that lie in the grave,{HR}Whom thou rememberest no more,{HR}And they are cut off from thy hand.
Thou hast laid me in the pit of abysses,{HR}In dark places, in depths.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,{HR}And thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy breakers. Selah.
Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me,{HR}Thou hast made me abomination to them:{HR}[I am] shut up and cannot come forth.
Mine eye wasteth because of mine affliction.{HR}I have called on thee, O Jehovah, every day,{HR}I have stretched out my hands toward thee.
Wilt thou do a wonder to the dead?{HR}Shall shades (Rephaim) arise?{HR}Shall they praise thee? Selah.
Shall thy mercy be declared in the grave?{HR}Thy faithfulness in destruction (Abaddon)?
Shall thy wonders be known in the darkness,{HR}And thy righteousness in a land of forgetfulness?
But for me, I cry unto thee, O Jehovah,{HR}And in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.
Why, O Jehovah, dost thou cast off my soul?{HR}Hidest thou thy face from me?
Poor [am] I and expiring from youth;{HR}I have borne thy terror; I am distracted.
Thy fierce angers have come over me;{HR}Thy terrors have cut me off,
They have surrounded me like the water all the day,{HR}And they have closed in upon me together.
Thou hast put far from me lover and associate;{HR}Mine acquaintances [are] darkness.