1. O Lord God who delivers me!By day I cry outand at night I pray before you.
2. Listen to my prayer!Pay attention to my cry for help!
3. For my life is filled with troublesand I am ready to enter Sheol.
4. They treat me like those who descend into the grave.I am like a helpless man,
5. adrift among the dead,like corpses lying in the grave,whom you remember no more,and who are cut off from your power.
6. You place me in the lowest regions of the pit,in the dark places, in the watery depths.