Incline Your Ear to My Cry

¹O Yahweh, the God of my salvation,

I have cried out by day and throughout the night before You.

²Let my prayer come before You;

Incline Your ear to my cry of lamentation!

³For my soul has been saturated with calamities,

And my life has reached Sheol.

⁴I am counted among those who go down to the pit;

I am like a man without strength,

⁵Released among the dead,

Like the slain who lie in the grave,

Whom You remember no more,

And they are cut off from Your hand.

⁶You have put me in the pit far below,

In dark places, in the depths.

⁷Your wrath lies upon me,

And You afflict me with all Your breaking waves. Selah.

⁸You have removed my acquaintances far from me;

You have set me as an abomination to them;

I am shut up and cannot go out.

⁹My eye has wasted away because of affliction;

I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh;

I have spread out my hands to You.

¹⁰¶Will You do wonders for the dead?

Will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.

¹¹Will Your lovingkindness be recounted in the grave,

Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

¹²Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?

And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³¶But as for me, O Yahweh, I have cried out to You for help,

And in the morning my prayer comes before You.

¹⁴O Yahweh, why do You reject my soul?

Why do You hide Your face from me?

¹⁵I have been afflicted and about to breathe my last from my youth on;

I bear Your terrors; I am overcome.

¹⁶Your burning anger has passed over me;

Your horrors have destroyed me.

¹⁷They have surrounded me like water all day long;

They have encompassed me altogether.

¹⁸You have removed lover and friend far from me;

My acquaintances are in darkness.