⁷ 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.

² The Lord is my rock,^(A) my fortress^(B) and my deliverer;^(C)
    my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,^(D)
    my shield^[a](E) and the horn^[b] of my salvation,^(F) my stronghold.

¹² let’s swallow^(A) them alive, like the grave,
    and whole, like those who go down to the pit;^(B)

⁴ I am counted among those who go down to the pit;^(A)
    I am like one without strength.^(B)
5 I am set apart with the dead,
    like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
    who are cut off^(C) from your care.

⁶ You have put me in the lowest pit,
    in the darkest depths.^(D)

⁴ Trust^(A) in the Lord forever,^(B)
    for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock^(C) eternal.

²⁸ God has delivered^(A) me from going down to the pit,^(B)
    and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.’^(C)