1 J ehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day in the night before thee.

2 L et my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my cry.

3 F or my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.

4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:

5 P rostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.

6 T hou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

7 T hy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted with all thy waves. Selah.

8 T hou 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.

9 M ine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

10 W ilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah.

11 S hall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction?

12 S hall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 B ut as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.

14 W hy, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? hidest thou thy face from me?

15 I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, I am distracted.

16 T hy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought:

17 T hey have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together.

18 L over and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.