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1 O LORD, the God who saves me, day and night I cry out before you.
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2 Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:
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2 May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry.
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3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
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3 For my soul is full of trouble and my life draws near the grave.
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4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
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4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength.
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5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
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5 I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.
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6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
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6 You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
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7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
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7 Your wrath lies heavily upon me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. "Selah"
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8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
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8 You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape;
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9 My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
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9 my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, O LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you.
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10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)
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10 Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do those who are dead rise up and praise you? "Selah"
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11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
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11 Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction ?
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12 May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
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12 Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?
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13 But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.
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13 But I cry to you for help, O LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
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14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
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14 Why, O LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me?
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15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
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15 From my youth I have been afflicted and close to death; I have suffered your terrors and am in despair.
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16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.
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16 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.
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17 They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.
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17 All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me.
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18 You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
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18 You have taken my companions and loved ones from me; the darkness is my closest friend.
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