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- <A Song.
A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.>
O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
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- Let my prayer come before you;
give ear to my cry:
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- For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
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- I am numbered among those who go down into the earth;
I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
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- My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought;
for they are cut off from your care.
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- You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
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- The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me.
(Selah.)
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- You have sent my friends far away from me;
you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
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- My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
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- Will you do works of wonder for the dead?
will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)
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- Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead?
will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
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- May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark?
or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
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- But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord;
in the morning my prayer came before you.
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- Lord, why have you sent away my soul?
why is your face covered from me?
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- I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young;
your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
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- The heat of your wrath has gone over me;
I am broken by your cruel punishments.
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- They are round me all the day like water;
they have made a circle about me.
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- You have sent my friends and lovers far from me;
I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
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