1 ARST Yahweh God, you who rescue me, all during each day I call out to you to help me, and I cry out to you during each night also. 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 ARST Listen to my prayer while I cry out to you for help! BSB BSB: May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
3 ARST I have experienced many troubles, and I am about to die and go where dead people are. BSB BSB: For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
4 ARST Because I have no more strength, other people believe that I will soon die. BSB BSB: I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
5 ARST I am like a corpse that has been abandoned; I am like dead people who lie in their graves, people who have been completely forgotten because you do not take care of them anymore. 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 ARST It is as though you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit, into a place where they throw corpses. BSB BSB: You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
7 ARST It seems as though you are very angry with me, and it is as though you have crushed me as ocean waves crash down on people. BSB BSB: Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
8 ARST You have caused my friends to avoid me; I have become repulsive to them. It is as though I were in a prison and cannot escape. BSB BSB: You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
9 ARST My eyes cannot see well because I cry very much. Yahweh, every day I call out to you to help me; I lift up my hands to you while I pray. BSB BSB: My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
10 ARST You certainly do not perform miracles for dead people! Their spirits do not arise to praise you! BSB BSB: Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
11 ARST Corpses in the grave certainly do not tell about your faithfully loving us, and in the place where people are finally destroyed, no one tells about what you faithfully do for us. BSB BSB: Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 ARST No one in the deep, dark pit ever sees the miracles that you perform, and no one in the place where people have been completely forgotten tells about your being good to us. BSB BSB: Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
13 ARST But as for me, Yahweh, I cry out to you to help me; each morning I pray to you. BSB BSB: But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
14 ARST Yahweh, why do you reject me? Why do you turn away from me? BSB BSB: Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
15 ARST All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died; I am in despair because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me. BSB BSB: From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
16 ARST I feel that you have crushed me because of your being angry with me; the terrible things that you are doing to me are almost destroying me. BSB BSB: Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
17 ARST It is as though they surround me like a flood; they are closing in on me from all sides. BSB BSB: All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
18 ARST You have caused even my friends and others whom I love to avoid me, and it is as though the only friend that I have is darkness. BSB BSB: You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
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