| 1 | A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Unto the end. For Mahalath, to answer the understanding of Heman the Ezrahite. |
| 2 | O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence. |
| 3 | Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition. |
| 4 | For my soul has been filled with evils, and my life has drawn near to Hell. |
| 5 | I am considered to be among those who will descend into the pit. I have become like a man without assistance, |
| 6 | idle among the dead. I am like the wounded sleeping in sepulchers, whom you no longer remember, and who have been repelled by your hand. |
| 7 | They have lain me in the lower pit: in dark places and in the shadow of death. |
| 8 | Your fury has been confirmed over me. And you have brought all your waves upon me. |
| 9 | You have sent my acquaintances far from me. They have set me as an abomination to themselves. I was handed over, yet I did not depart. |
| 10 | My eyes languished before destitution. All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. I stretched out my hands to you. |
| 11 | Will you perform wonders for the dead? Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you? |
| 12 | Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, or your truth from within perdition? |
| 13 | Will your wonders be known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion? |
| 14 | And I have cried out to you, O Lord, and in early morning, my prayer will come before you. |
| 15 | Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me? |
| 16 | I am poor, and I have been amid hardships from my youth. And, though I have been exalted, I am humbled and disturbed. |
| 17 | Your wrath has crossed into me, and your terrors have disturbed me. |
| 18 | They have surrounded me like water, all day long. They have surrounded me, all at once. |
| 19 | Friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances, you have sent far away from me, away from misery. |
