^17 (A)Hide not your face from your servant,
    ^(B)for I am in distress; ^(C)make haste to answer me.

28 To you, O Lord, I call;
    ^(A)my rock, be not deaf to me,
lest, if you ^(B)be silent to me,
    I become like those who ^(C)go down to the pit.

^{9     (A)}Hide not your face from me.
Turn not your servant away in anger,
    O you who have been my help.
Cast me not off; forsake me not,
    ^(B)O God of my salvation!

^18 (A)For Sheol does not thank you;
    death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
    for your faithfulness.

^2 (A)Do not hide your face from me
    in ^(B)the day of my distress!
^(C)Incline your ear to me;
    ^(D)answer me speedily ^(E)in the day when I call!

⁴ I am counted among those who ^(A)go down to the pit;
    I am a man who has no strength,
⁵ like one set loose among the dead,
    like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom ^(B)you remember no more,
    for they are ^(C)cut off from your hand.
⁶ You have put me in ^(D)the depths of the pit,
    in the ^(E)regions dark and ^(F)deep.

^3 (A)I am weary with my crying out;
    ^(B)my throat is parched.
^(C)My eyes grow dim
    with ^(D)waiting for my God.