³ For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.
⁴ I am counted among those going down to the Pit.
I am like a man without strength,
⁵ abandoned^[a] among the dead.
I am like the slain lying in the grave,
whom you no longer remember,
and who are cut off from your care.^[b]

⁶ You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,
in the darkest places, in the depths.
⁷ Your wrath weighs heavily on me;
you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.Selah
⁸ You have distanced my friends from me;
you have made me repulsive to them.
I am shut in and cannot go out.
⁹ My eyes are worn out from crying.
Lord, I cry out to you all day long;
I spread out my hands to you.

¹⁰ Do you work wonders for the dead?
Do departed spirits rise up to praise you?Selah
¹¹ Will your faithful love be declared in the grave,
your faithfulness in Abaddon?
¹² Will your wonders be known in the darkness
or your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

¹³ But I call to you for help, Lord;
in the morning my prayer meets you.
¹⁴ Lord, why do you reject me?
Why do you hide your face from me?
¹⁵ From my youth,
I have been suffering and near death.
I suffer your horrors; I am desperate.
¹⁶ Your wrath sweeps over me;
your terrors destroy me.
¹⁷ They surround me like water all day long;
they close in on me from every side.
¹⁸ You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me;
darkness is my only friend.^[c]