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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. LORD, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But I cry to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Why, LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You have taken from me friend and neighbor-- darkness is my closest friend. |
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