⁷ Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.

¹⁷ Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.

¹ <Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

⁹ Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

²⁶ Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.

¹⁶ For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

¹⁸ For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

¹⁷ And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.

² Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.

¹⁰ Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

¹¹ Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

⁴ I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

⁵ My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

⁶ You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

² The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

¹² O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.

⁵ But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.

³ I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

¹⁷ Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.

¹² For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

¹³ Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

²⁴ For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

² How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

³ Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

⁴ And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.