[1] O Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and throughout the night before You. [2] Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry of lamentation! [3] For my soul has been saturated with calamities, And my life has reached Sheol. [4] I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength, [5] Released among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And they are cut off from Your hand. [6] You have put me in the pit far below, In dark places, in the depths. [7] Your wrath lies upon me, And You afflict me with all Your breaking waves. Selah. [8] You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have set me as an abomination to them; I am shut up and cannot go out. [9] My eye has wasted away because of affliction; I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh; I have spread out my hands to You. [10] Will You do wonders for the dead? Will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah. [11] Will Your lovingkindness be recounted in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? [12] Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? [13] But as for me, O Yahweh, I have cried out to You for help, And in the morning my prayer comes before You. [14] O Yahweh, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me? [15] I have been afflicted and about to breathe my last from my youth on; I bear Your terrors; I am overcome. [16] Your burning anger has passed over me; Your horrors have destroyed me. [17] They have surrounded me like water all day long; They have encompassed me altogether. [18] You have removed lover and friend far from me; My acquaintances are in darkness.
