1. A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2. Let my prayer enter into thy presence; incline thine ear unto my cry:
3. For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
4. I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help:
5. Cast off among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more; and they are cut off from thy hand.
6. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
7. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah
8. Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.