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[1]ASong or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
[2]Letmy prayer come before thee: incline thy ear to my cry;
[3]Formy soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.
[4]Iam counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
[5]Freeamong the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
[6]Thouhast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
[7]Thywrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
[8]Thouhast put away my acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
[9]Myeye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee.
[10]Wiltthou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
[11]Shallthy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
[12]Shallthy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
[13]Butto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
[14]LORD,why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
[15]Iam afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
[16]Thyfierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
[17]Theycame around me daily like water; they encompassed me together.
[18]Loverand friend hast thou put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
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