I Cry Out before You 1 UST Yahweh, you are the God who saves me. I continually ask you to help me. 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 UST Please pay attention to what I am saying as I pray to you. BSB BSB: May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
3 UST I ask this because I have experienced so many bad things that I cannot endure any more; I am about to die and go to the place where dead people are. BSB BSB: For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
4 UST People expect me to die soon because I have so little strength left. BSB BSB: I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
5 UST It is as if I belong among dead people who are lying in their graves. It seems that you are no longer aware of such people and you stop taking care of them. 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 UST It is as though you have thrown me down to the bottom of a deep, dark pit. BSB BSB: You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
7 UST I feel as if you are angry with me, and that is like an oppressive burden to me. It is as if I am drowning in your anger. Selah BSB BSB: Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
8 UST Because my illness is so unpleasant and you have not healed me, my friends stay away from me, and I am not able to leave my home{ to visit anyone}. BSB BSB: You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
9 UST My eyes are swollen because I cry so much. Yahweh, throughout the day I call out to you for help as I spread out my hands toward you{ in prayer}. BSB BSB: My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
10 UST If I were to die, it would be too late for you to do a miracle to help me. Dead people do not come back to life and praise you! Selah BSB BSB: Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
11 UST Dead bodies in graves do not talk about how you faithfully love us. In the place where dead people go, no one talks about how faithful you are. BSB BSB: Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 UST No one in that dark place sees the amazing things you do; no one in the place where no one remembers anything knows how good you are. BSB BSB: Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
13 UST But I{ am still alive,} Yahweh, and I am calling out to you to help me. It is as if my prayer is already there waiting for you when you get up in the morning. BSB BSB: But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
14 UST Yahweh, please do not reject me! Please do not ignore me! BSB BSB: Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
15 UST Since I was young, I have been so ill that I have nearly died. I have been sick for so long with this terrible illness that you permit that I have no more hope. BSB BSB: From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
16 UST I feel as if you are very angry with me. This terrible illness that you permit has destroyed the good life I could have had. BSB BSB: Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
17 UST The bad things that are happening to me are like floodwaters that continually surround me and are about to drown me. BSB BSB: All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
18 UST Because you have allowed this illness, my friends and family members stay away from me. I can no longer see where they are. BSB BSB: You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
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