[1] A SONG. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “SICKNESS TO AFFLICT.” AN INSTRUCTION OF HEMAN THE EZRAHITE. O YHWH, God of my salvation, || Daily I have cried, nightly before You, [2] My prayer comes in before You, || Incline Your ear to my loud cry, [3] For my soul has been full of evils, || And my life has come to Sheol. [4] I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, || I have been as a man without strength. [5] Among the dead—free, || As pierced ones lying in the grave, || Whom You have not remembered anymore, || Indeed, they have been cut off by Your hand. [6] You have put me in the lowest pit, || In dark places, in depths. [7] Your fury has lain on me, || And You have afflicted [with] all Your breakers. Selah. [8] You have put my acquaintance far from me, || You have made me an abomination to them, || Shut up—I do not go forth. [9] My eye has grieved because of affliction, || I called You, O YHWH, all the day, || I have spread out my hands to You. [10] Do You do wonders to the dead? Does Rephaim rise? Do they thank You? Selah. [11] Is Your kindness recounted in the grave? Your faithfulness in destruction? [12] Are Your wonders known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? [13] And I, to You, O YHWH, I have cried, || And in the morning my prayer comes before You. [14] Why, O YHWH, do You cast off my soul? You hide Your face from me. [15] I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, || I have borne Your terrors—I pine away. [16] Your wrath has passed over me, || Your terrors have cut me off, [17] They have surrounded me as waters all the day, || They have gone around against me together, [18] You have put lover and friend far from me, || My acquaintance [is] the place of darkness!
