I Cry Out before You 1 AKJV A song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you: BSB BSB: A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
2 AKJV Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear to my cry; BSB BSB: May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
3 AKJV For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave. BSB BSB: For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
4 AKJV I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength: BSB BSB: I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
5 AKJV 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. BSB BSB: I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
6 AKJV You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. BSB BSB: You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
7 AKJV Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. BSB BSB: Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
8 AKJV 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. BSB BSB: You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
9 AKJV My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you. BSB BSB: My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
10 AKJV Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah. BSB BSB: Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
11 AKJV Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction? BSB BSB: Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 AKJV Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? BSB BSB: Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
13 AKJV But to you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you. BSB BSB: But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
14 AKJV LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me? BSB BSB: Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
15 AKJV I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted. BSB BSB: From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
16 AKJV Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off. BSB BSB: Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
17 AKJV They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. BSB BSB: All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
18 AKJV Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness. BSB BSB: You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
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