I Cry Out Day and Night Before You

A Song. A Psalm of zthe Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to aMahalath Leannoth. A Maskil1 of bHeman the Ezrahite.

¹O Lord, cGod of my salvation,

I dcry out day and night before you.

²Let my prayer come before you;

eincline your ear to my cry!

³For my soul is full of troubles,

and fmy life draws near to gSheol.

⁴I am counted among those who hgo down to the pit;

I am a man who has no strength,

⁵like one set loose among the dead,

like the slain that lie in the grave,

like those whom iyou remember no more,

for they are jcut off from your hand.

⁶You have put me in kthe depths of the pit,

in the lregions dark and mdeep.

⁷Your wrath nlies heavy upon me,

and you overwhelm me with oall your waves. Selah

⁸You have caused pmy companions to shun me;

you have made me qa horror2 to them.

I am rshut in so that I cannot escape;

⁹smy eye grows dim through sorrow.

Every day I call upon you, O Lord;

I tspread out my hands to you.

¹⁰Do you work wonders for the dead?

uDo the departed rise up to praise you? Selah

¹¹Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,

or your faithfulness in Abaddon?

¹²Are your vwonders known in wthe darkness,

or your righteousness in the land of xforgetfulness?

¹³But I, O Lord, cry yto you;

zin the morning my prayer comes before you.

¹⁴O Lord, why ado you cast my soul away?

Why bdo you hide your face from me?

¹⁵Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,

I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.3

¹⁶Your wrath has swept over me;

your cdreadful assaults destroy me.

¹⁷They dsurround me like a flood eall day long;

they fclose in on me together.

¹⁸You have caused gmy beloved and my friend to shun me;

my companions have become darkness.4