The Message Bible MSG
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 God, you're my last chance of the day. I spend the night on my knees before you.
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A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah, to the Overseer, `Concerning the Sickness of Afflictions.' -- An instruction, by Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah, God of my salvation, Daily I have cried, nightly before Thee,
2 Put me on your salvation agenda; take notes on the trouble I'm in.
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My prayer cometh in before Thee, Incline Thine ear to my loud cry,
3 I've had my fill of trouble; I'm camped on the edge of hell.
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For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.
4 I'm written off as a lost cause, one more statistic, a hopeless case.
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I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, I have been as a man without strength.
5 Abandoned as already dead, one more body in a stack of corpses, And not so much as a gravestone - I'm a black hole in oblivion.
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Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.
6 You've dropped me into a bottomless pit, sunk me in a pitch-black abyss.
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Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.
7 I'm battered senseless by your rage, relentlessly pounded by your waves of anger.
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Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And [with] all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah.
8 You turned my friends against me, made me horrible to them. I'm caught in a maze and can't find my way out,
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Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.
9 blinded by tears of pain and frustration. I call to you, God; all day I call. I wring my hands, I plead for help.
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Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.
10 Are the dead a live audience for your miracles? Do ghosts ever join the choirs that praise you?
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To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.
11 Does your love make any difference in a graveyard? Is your faithful presence noticed in the corridors of hell?
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Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction?
12 Are your marvelous wonders ever seen in the dark, your righteous ways noticed in the Land of No Memory?
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Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 I'm standing my ground, God, shouting for help, at my prayers every morning, on my knees each daybreak.
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And I, unto Thee, O Jehovah, I have cried, And in the morning doth my prayer come before Thee.
14 Why, God, do you turn a deaf ear? Why do you make yourself scarce?
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Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me.
15 For as long as I remember I've been hurting; I've taken the worst you can hand out, and I've had it.
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I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.
16 Your wildfire anger has blazed through my life; I'm bleeding, black and blue.
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Over me hath Thy wrath passed, Thy terrors have cut me off,
17 You've attacked me fiercely from every side, raining down blows till I'm nearly dead.
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They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together,
18 You made lover and neighbor alike dump me; the only friend I have left is Darkness.
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Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance [is] the place of darkness!
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.
Young's Literal Translation is in the public domain.