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New International Version NIV
1 Lord, you are the God who saves me. I cry out to you day and night.
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LORD, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you.
2 Receive my prayer, and listen to my cry.
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May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry.
3 My life is full of troubles, and I am nearly dead.
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I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death.
4 They think I am on the way to my grave. I am like a man with no strength.
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I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength.
5 I have been left as dead, like a body lying in a grave whom you don't remember anymore, cut off from your care.
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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.
6 You have brought me close to death; I am almost in the dark place of the dead.
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You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
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