¹ > To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

¹ > God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, And don't be still, God.

² Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

⁷ Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

¹² Let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit.

⁴ I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

⁵ Set apart among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, In the darkest depths.

²² You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me.

³ and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

¹⁸ For Sheol can't praise you, death can't celebrate you: Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

⁴ Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

¹ > I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

¹ > My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, And for him to listen to me.

¹⁵ Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

⁹ I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

¹² "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were.

⁹ "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

² My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.

² Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; For to you do I pray.

⁴ I cry to Yahweh with my voice, And he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, My life shall see the light.'