1. O Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried to You for help by day; at night I am in Your presence. [Luke 18:7.]
2. Let my prayer come before You and really enter into Your presence; incline Your ear to my cry!
3. For I am full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol (the place of the dead).
4. I am counted among those who go down into the pit (the grave); I am like a man who has no help or strength [a mere shadow],
5. Cast away among the dead, like the slain that lie in a [nameless] grave, whom You [seriously] remember no more, and they are cut off from Your hand.
6. You have laid me in the depths of the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7. Your wrath lies hard upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Ps. 42:7.]
8. You have put my [familiar] friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9. My eye grows dim because of sorrow and affliction. Lord, I have called daily on You; I have spread forth my hands to You.