Of David. To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
Answer me quickly, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.’
For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness.
You have seen, O Lord; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!
“What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me.
Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.
Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.
A Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. With my voice I cry out to the Lord; with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.
I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
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