## Incline Your Ear to My Cry 

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O Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and throughout the night before You. 

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Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry of lamentation! 

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For my soul has been saturated with calamities, And my life has reached Sheol. 

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I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength, 

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Released among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And they are cut off from Your hand. 

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You have put me in the pit far below, In dark places, in the depths. 

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Your wrath lies upon me, And You afflict me with all Your breaking waves. Selah. 

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You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have set me as an abomination to them; I am shut up and cannot go out. 

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My eye has wasted away because of affliction; I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh; I have spread out my hands to You. 

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Will You do wonders for the dead? Will the departed spirits rise _and_ praise You? Selah. 

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Will Your lovingkindness be recounted in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? 

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Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 

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But as for me, O Yahweh, I have cried out to You for help, And in the morning my prayer comes before You. 

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O Yahweh, why do You reject my soul? _Why_ do You hide Your face from me? 

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I _have been_ afflicted and about to breathe my last from _my_ youth on; I bear Your terrors; I am overcome. 

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Your burning anger has passed over me; Your horrors have destroyed me. 

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They have surrounded me like water all day long; They have encompassed me altogether. 

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You have removed lover and friend far from me; My acquaintances are _in_ darkness.