^[1]  O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:

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^[2]  Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear to my cry;

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^[3]  For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave.

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^[4]  I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:

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^[5]  Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.

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^[6]  You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

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^[7]  Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

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^[8]  You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

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^[9]  My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you.

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^[10]  Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.

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^[11]  Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?

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^[12]  Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

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^[13]  But to you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you.

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^[14]  LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?

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^[15]  I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted.

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^[16]  Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.

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^[17]  They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

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^[18]  Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

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