I Cry Out before You 1 ULT Yahweh, God of my salvation,{ by} day, in the night, I cry out 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 ULT Let my prayer come to your face; incline your ear to my cry. BSB BSB: May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
3 ULT For my soul is full of troubles, and my life has come near to Sheol. BSB BSB: For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
4 ULT I am reckoned with the ones going down{ into} the pit; I have become like a man without strength, BSB BSB: I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
5 ULT free among the ones having died, like the slain lying in the grave, whom you do not remember them anymore, and they, 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 ULT You have set me in the pit of the depths, in dark places, in deep places. BSB BSB: You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
7 ULT Your wrath rests heavily on me, and you overwhelm{ me}{ with} all of your waves. Selah BSB BSB: Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
8 ULT You have distanced my acquaintances from me; you have made me abominations to them.{ I am} shut in, and I do not go out. BSB BSB: You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
9 ULT My eye mourns from affliction. I call out to you, Yahweh, in all of the day; I spread out my palms 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 ULT Will you do a wonder for the ones having died? Or will the Raphaites arise? Will they thank you? Selah BSB BSB: Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
11 ULT Will your covenant faithfulness be recounted in the grave, your faithfulness in Abaddon? BSB BSB: Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 ULT Will your wonder be known in the darkness, or 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 ULT But I, I cry out to you, Yahweh, and in the morning my prayer precedes you. BSB BSB: But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
14 ULT Why, Yahweh, do you reject my soul?{ Why} do you hide your face from me? BSB BSB: Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
15 ULT I{ have been} weak and expiring since youth; I have borne your terrors; I must despair. BSB BSB: From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
16 ULT Your indignations pass over me; your terrors destroy me. BSB BSB: Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
17 ULT They surround me like water all of the day; they close in upon me together. BSB BSB: All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
18 ULT You have distanced friend and acquaintance from me; the ones known to me{ are} darkness. BSB BSB: You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
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