1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
         
                                
                        2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
         
                                
                        3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
         
                                
                        4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
         
                                
                        5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
         
                                
                        6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
         
                                
                        7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.