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.]