1(Shir. Mizmor of the Bnei Korach. For the one directing. According to Machalat le'annot. Maskil of Heman the Ezrachi)

2Hashem Elohei Yeshu'ati (G-d of my salvation),
I have cried out yom valailah before Thee.

3Let my tefillah come before Thee;
incline Thine ear unto my cry.

4For my nefesh is full of troubles;
and my life draweth near unto Sheol.

5I am counted with them that go down into the bor (pit);
I am like a gever (man) that hath no strength;

6Free among the mesim,
like the slain that lie in the kever,
whom Thou rememberest no more;
and nigzaru (they are cut off, excluded) ¹²¹from Thy Yad (hand, power, care).

7Thou hast laid me in the lowest bor (pit),
in darkness, in the deeps.

8Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,
and Thou hast overwhelmed me with kol mishbarecha (all Thy waves, breakers).
Selah

9Thou hast estranged mine acquaintances far from me;
Thou hast made me to'evot unto them;
I am shut up, and I cannot escape.

10Mine eye groweth dim by reason of oni (affliction);
Hashem, I have called daily upon Thee,
I have stretched up my hands unto Thee.

11Wilt Thou show wonders to the mesim?
Shall the lifeless arise and praise Thee?
Selah

12Shall Thy chesed be declared in the kever?
Or Thy emunah in Avaddon?

13Shall Thy wonders be known in the choshech?
And Thy tzedakah in the Eretz Neshiyyah (land of forgetfulness, oblivion)?

14But unto Thee have I cried, Hashem;
and in the boker shall my tefillah come before Thee.

15Hashem, why castest Thou off my nefesh?
Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?

16I am afflicted and govei'a (one being close to death) from my youth up;
while I suffer Thy terrors I am distraught.

17Thy charon (fierce wrath) goeth over me;
Thy terrors have flayed me.

18They came round about me daily like mayim;
they close in, engulfing me.

19Ohev (lover) and re'a (companion) hast Thou estranged from me,
and mine acquaintances have become darkness. ¹²²