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A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician; set to chant mournfully. A didactic or reflective poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried to You for help by day; at night I am in Your presence. [Luke 18:7.] |
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Let my prayer come before You and really enter into Your presence; incline Your ear to my cry! |
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For I am full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol (the place of the dead). |
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I am counted among those who go down into the pit (the grave); I am like a man who has no help or strength [a mere shadow], |
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Cast away among the dead, like the slain that lie in a [nameless] grave, whom You [seriously] remember no more, and they are cut off from Your hand. |
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You have laid me in the depths of the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. |
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Your wrath lies hard upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Ps. 42:7.] |
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You have put my [familiar] friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. |
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My eye grows dim because of sorrow and affliction. Lord, I have called daily on You; I have spread forth my hands to You. |
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Will You show wonders to the dead? Shall the departed arise and praise You? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! |
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Shall Your steadfast love be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (Sheol, as a place of ruin and destruction)? |
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Shall Your wonders be known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the place of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]? |
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But to You I cry, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer come to meet You. |
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Lord, why do You cast me off? Why do You hide Your face from me? [Matt. 27:46.] |
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I was afflicted and close to death from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors I am distracted [I faint]. |
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Your fierce wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. |
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They surround me like a flood all day long; together they have closed in upon me. |
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Lover and friend have You put far from me; my familiar friends are darkness and the grave. |
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