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

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I am counted among those who go down to the pit;(A)
    I am like one without strength.(B)

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28 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.

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Psalm 28

Of David.

To you, Lord, I call;
    you are my Rock,
    do not turn a deaf ear(A) to me.
For if you remain silent,(B)
    I will be like those who go down to the pit.(C)

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But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

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Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God,(A) who raises the dead.(B)

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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.

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Answer me quickly,(A) Lord;
    my spirit fails.(B)
Do not hide your face(C) from me
    or I will be like those who go down to the pit.

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For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

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For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness,(A) yet he lives by God’s power.(B) Likewise, we are weak(C) in him, yet by God’s power we will live with him(D) in our dealing with you.

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For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

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You see, at just the right time,(A) when we were still powerless,(B) Christ died for the ungodly.(C)

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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

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To the roots of the mountains(A) I sank down;
    the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, Lord my God,
    brought my life up from the pit.(B)

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20 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;

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20 then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit,(A) to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place[a] in the land of the living.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:20 Septuagint; Hebrew return, and I will give glory

17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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

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17 Surely it was for my benefit(A)
    that I suffered such anguish.(B)
In your love you kept me
    from the pit(C) of destruction;
you have put all my sins(D)
    behind your back.(E)
18 For the grave(F) cannot praise you,
    death cannot sing your praise;(G)
those who go down to the pit(H)
    cannot hope for your faithfulness.

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22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

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22 For I am poor and needy,
    and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I fade away like an evening shadow;(A)
    I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees give(B) way from fasting;(C)
    my body is thin and gaunt.(D)

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12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

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12 I am forgotten as though I were dead;(A)
    I have become like broken pottery.

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

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“What is gained if I am silenced,
    if I go down to the pit?(A)
Will the dust praise you?
    Will it proclaim your faithfulness?(B)

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17 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

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17 My spirit(A) is broken,
    my days are cut short,(B)
    the grave awaits me.(C)

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