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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out before you day and night. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2May my prayer reach your presence; listen to my cry. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For I have had enough troubles, and my life is near Sheol. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I am counted among those going down to the Pit. I am like a man without strength, |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5abandoned among the dead. I am like the slain lying in the grave, whom you no longer remember, and who are cut off from your care. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit, in the darkest places, in the depths. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Your wrath weighs heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. Selah |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You have distanced my friends from me; you have made me repulsive to them. I am shut in and cannot go out. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9My eyes are worn out from crying. LORD, I cry out to you all day long; I spread out my hands to you. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Do you work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise you? Selah |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Will your faithful love be declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Abaddon? |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Will your wonders be known in the darkness or your righteousness in the land of oblivion? |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But I call to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer meets you. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14LORD, why do you reject me? Why do you hide your face from me? |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15From my youth, I have been suffering and near death. I suffer your horrors; I am desperate. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Your wrath sweeps over me; your terrors destroy me. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17They surround me like water all day long; they close in on me from every side. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me; darkness is my only friend. |
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