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| O LORD, my God, my Savior, *
by day and night I cry to you.
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| Let my prayer enter into your presence; *
incline your ear to my lamentation.
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| For I am full of trouble; *
my life is at the brink of the grave.
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| I am counted among those who go down to the
Pit; *
I have become like one who has no strength;
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| Lost among the dead, *
like the slain who lie in the grave,
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| Whom you remember no more, *
for they are cut off from your hand.
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| You have laid me in the depths of the Pit,
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in dark places, and in the abyss.
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| Your anger weighs upon me heavily, *
and all your great waves overwhelm me.
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| You have put my friends far from me;
you have made me to be abhorred by them; *
I am in prison and cannot get free.
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| My sight has failed me because of trouble;
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LORD, I have called upon you daily;
I have stretched out my hands to you.
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| Do you work wonders for the dead? *
will those who have died stand up and give you thanks?
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| Will your loving-kindness be declared in
the grave? *
your faithfulness in the land of destruction?
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| Will your wonders be known in the dark? *
or your righteousness in the country where all is forgotten?
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| But as for me, O LORD, I cry to you for help;
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in the morning my prayer comes before you.
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| LORD, why have you rejected me? *
why have you hidden your face from me?
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| Ever since my youth, I have been wretched
and at the point of death; *
I have borne your terrors with a troubled mind.
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| Your blazing anger has swept over me; *
your terrors have destroyed me;
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| They surround me all day long like a flood;
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they encompass me on every side.
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| My friend and my neighbor you have put away
from me, *
and darkness is my only companion.
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