1 O Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried to You for help by day; at night I am in Your presence.

2 L et my prayer come before You and really enter into Your presence; incline Your ear to my cry!

3 F or I am full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol (the place of the dead).

4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit (the grave); I am like a man who has no help or strength,

5 C ast away among the dead, like the slain that lie in a grave, whom You remember no more, and they are cut off from Your hand.

6 Y ou have laid me in the depths of the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7 Y our wrath lies hard upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah!

8 Y ou have put my friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

9 M y eye grows dim because of sorrow and affliction. Lord, I have called daily on You; I have spread forth my hands to You.

10 W ill You show wonders to the dead? Shall the departed arise and praise You? Selah!

11 S hall Your steadfast love be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (Sheol, as a place of ruin and destruction)?

12 S hall Your wonders be known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the place of forgetfulness ?

13 B ut to You I cry, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer come to meet You.

14 L ord, why do You cast me off? Why do You hide Your face from me?

15 I was afflicted and close to death from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors I am distracted.

16 Y our fierce wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

17 T hey surround me like a flood all day long; together they have closed in upon me.

18 L over and friend have You put far from me; my familiar friends are darkness and the grave.