A song of a Psalm for the sons of Core for the end, upon Maeleth for responsive [strains], of instruction for Æman the Israelite.
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O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee.
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Let my prayer come in before thee; incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.
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For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades.
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I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;
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free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom thou rememberest no more; and they are rejected from thy hand.
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They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark [places], and in the shadow of death.
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Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.
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Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.
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Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to thee.
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Wilt thou work wonders for the dead? or shall physicians raise [them] up, that they shall praise thee?
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Shall any one declare thy mercy in the tomb? and thy truth in destruction?
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Shall thy wonders be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in a forgotten land?
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But I cried to thee, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
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Wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my prayer, [and] turn thy face away from me?
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I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.
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Thy wrath has passed over me; and thy terrors have greatly disquieted me.
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They compassed me like water; all the day they beset me together.
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Thou hast put far from me [every] friend, and mine acquaintances because of [my] wretchedness.
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