Bible Time

¹OH Yahvah, God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you; ²Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my supplication; ³For my soul is full of troubles and my life draws near to Sheol. ⁴I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am like a man who has no strength; ⁵Like a nobleman abandoned among the dead, like the slain that lie down in the grave, whom you do not remember any longer; they are lost to you. ⁶You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the shadow of death. ⁷Your wrath rests hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. ⁸You have put away my acquaintances far from me; you have made me an abomination to them; I am shut up and I cannot come out. ⁹My eyes are weakened from weeping; Yahvah, I have called daily on you; I have stretched out my hands to you.

¹⁰Look you will show wonders to the dead; the mighty ones will rise and praise you. ¹¹Those who are in the graves will declare your lovingkindness, and your faithfulness in destruction. ¹²Your wonders will be known in the dark, and your righteousness in the land that has been forsaken. ¹³But to you I have cried, oh Yahvah; and early in the morning will my prayer come before you. ¹⁴Oh Yahvah, do not forsake my soul, and do not turn your face from me. ¹⁵I am poor and afflicted from my youth; I have been proud, but now I am humbled and crushed. ¹⁶Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have silenced me. ¹⁷They came around me daily like water; they set themselves in array against me. ¹⁸Friends and neighbors you have put far from me, and my acquaintances you have kept away from me.