Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. {lest...: or, for I am become like, etc}

The LORD {is} my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, {and} my high tower. {my strength: Heb. my rock}

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man {that hath} no strength:

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

[A Song {or} Psalm of Asaph.] Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. {of Asaph: or, for Asaph}

Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH {is} everlasting strength: {everlasting...: Heb. the rock of ages}

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. {He...: or, He hath delivered my soul, etc, and my life}

And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

{This} thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. {am...: Heb. there is no silence to me}

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can {not} celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

What profit {is there} in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

[To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.] I cried unto God with my voice, {even} unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. {of: or, for}

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

[Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.] I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. {Maschil...: or, A Psalm of David, giving instruction}

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

The LORD {is} my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, {and} my high tower. {my strength: Heb. my rock}

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. {lest...: or, for I am become like, etc}

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man {that hath} no strength:

[A Song {or} Psalm of Asaph.] Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. {of Asaph: or, for Asaph}

[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

{This} thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

I will call upon the LORD, {who is worthy} to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

[To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, {A Psalm} of David.] Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. {chief...: or, overseer} {Maschil: or, of instruction}

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

I said unto the LORD, Thou {art} my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest {thy flock} to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? {as one...: or, as one that is veiled}

But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: {Gather...: or, Take not away} {bloody...: Heb. men of blood}

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, {and} was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of {them that are} slain in the midst of the seas.

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.