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1.    {A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief  Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the  Ezrahite.}
 
2.    Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day  and in the night before thee.
 
3.    Let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my  cry.
 
4.    For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh  to Sheol.
 
5.    I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as  a man that hath no strength:
 
6.    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.
 
7.    Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the  deeps.
 
8.    Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me  with all thy waves. Selah.
 
9.    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.
 
10.    Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee,  Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands  unto thee.
 
11.    Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise  and praise thee? Selah.
 
12.    Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy  faithfulness in Destruction?
 
13.    Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy  righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
 
14.    But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the  morning my prayer cometh before thee.
 
15.    Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? why hidest  thou thy face from me?
 
16.    I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy  terrors, and I am distracted.
 
17.    Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have  brought me to nought:
 
18.    They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have  compassed me about together.
 
19.    Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar  friends are darkness.