¹ Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

¹ Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

² 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.

⁷ 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.

¹² Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

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.

²² This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

³ 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.

¹⁸ For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

⁴ Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

¹ I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.

¹ I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

¹⁵ Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

⁹ I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

¹² 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.

⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

² O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

² Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

⁴ I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

²⁸ He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.