- [A song,
the psalme of the sonnes of Corach,
to the chiefe musition vpon Mahalath Leannoth,
a wise instruction of Heman the Ezrahite.]
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- O God the Lorde of my saluation, I crye day and night before thee:
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- let my prayer enter into thy presence, encline thyne eare vnto my crying.
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- For my soule is full of miserie: and my life toucheth the graue.
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- I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit: and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength.
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- I am free among the dead: like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue, whom thou remembrest no more, and are cut away from thy hande.
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- Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit: in darknes and in deepenes.
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- Thyne indignation sore presseth me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes.
Selah.
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- Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre from me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, I can not get foorth.
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- My sight fayleth through my affliction O God: I haue called dayly vpon thee, I haue stretched out mine handes vnto thee.
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- Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead?
or shal the dead rise vp againe [and] acknowledge thee?
Selah.
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- Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue?
or thy faythfulnes in destruction?
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- Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke?
and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes?
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- But vnto thee do I crye O God: and my prayer commeth early in the morning before thee.
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- O God, why abhorrest thou my soule: and [why] hidest thou thy face from me?
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- I am in miserie, I labour euen from my youth with the panges of death: I haue suffered thy terrours, [and] I am styll in doubt.
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- Thyne indignation hath gone ouer me: and thy terrours haue vndone me.
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- They came rounde about me dayly lyke water: and compassed me altogether on euery syde.
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- Thou hast put a way farre from me my frende and neighbour: [thou hast hid] mine acquaintaunce out of sight.
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