1<\/sup>A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Unto the end. For Mahalath, to answer the understanding of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>For my soul has been filled with evils, and my life has drawn near to Hell.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>I am considered to be among those who will descend into the pit. I have become like a man without assistance,<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>They have lain me in the lower pit: in dark places and in the shadow of death.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Your fury has been confirmed over me. And you have brought all your waves upon me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>My eyes languished before destitution. All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. I stretched out my hands to you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Will you perform wonders for the dead? Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you?<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, or your truth from within perdition?<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Will your wonders be known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion?<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>And I have cried out to you, O Lord, and in early morning, my prayer will come before you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me?<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>I am poor, and I have been amid hardships from my youth. And, though I have been exalted, I am humbled and disturbed.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Your wrath has crossed into me, and your terrors have disturbed me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>They have surrounded me like water, all day long. They have surrounded me, all at once.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances, you have sent far away from me, away from misery.<\/span> <\/p>\n