• Incline Your Ear to My Cry

  • 1 O Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and throughout the night before You.
  • 2 Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry of lamentation!
  • 3 For my soul has been saturated with calamities, And my life has reached Sheol.
  • 4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength,
  • 5 Released among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And they are cut off from Your hand.
  • 6 You have put me in the pit far below, In dark places, in the depths.
  • 7 Your wrath lies upon me, And You afflict me with all Your breaking waves. Selah.
  • 8 You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have set me as an abomination to them; I am shut up and cannot go out.
  • 9 My eye has wasted away because of affliction; I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh; I have spread out my hands to You.
  • 10 Will You do wonders for the dead? Will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.
  • 11 Will Your lovingkindness be recounted in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
  • 12 Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • 13 But as for me, O Yahweh, I have cried out to You for help, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
  • 14 O Yahweh, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?
  • 15 I have been afflicted and about to breathe my last from my youth on; I bear Your terrors; I am overcome.
  • 16 Your burning anger has passed over me; Your horrors have destroyed me.
  • 17 They have surrounded me like water all day long; They have encompassed me altogether.
  • 18 You have removed lover and friend far from me; My acquaintances are in darkness.