1[[A Song [or] Psalm (sacred song about or to God) for the sons of Korakh [Bald], for the Heavenly Worship Leader set to "Sickness that Causes Suffering," Maskhil [Contemplative poem] of Heiman [faithful] the Ezrachi [as arising out of the soil].]] O LORD-Yehovah God-Elohe Yeshuati [Messiah Pre-Incarnate, The Powerful Living Word of My Salvation], I have cried day [and] night before youⁱ:

2Let my prayer come before youⁱ: incline yourⁱ ear unto my cry;

3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near unto the grave.

4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that has] no strength:

5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom youⁱ remember no more: and they are cut off from yourⁱ hand.

6youⁱ have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7Your2s wrath lies hard upon me, and youⁱ have afflicted [me] with all yourⁱ waves. Selah [stop and diligently consider what was just said].

8youⁱ have put away mine acquaintance far from me; youⁱ have made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.

9Mine eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD-Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], I have called daily upon youⁱ, I have stretched out my hands unto youⁱ.

10Will youⁱ show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise youⁱ? Selah [stop and diligently consider what was just said].

11Shall yourⁱ lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] yourⁱ faithfulness in destruction?

12Shall yourⁱ wonders be known in the dark? and yourⁱ righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13But unto youⁱ have I cried, O LORD-Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate]; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent (come before; go before; anticipate) youⁱ.

14LORD-Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], why cast youⁱ off my soul? [why] hide youⁱ yourⁱ face from me?

15I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer yourⁱ terrors I am distracted.

16Your2s fierce wrath goes over me; yourⁱ terrors have cut me off.

17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

18Lover and friend have youⁱ put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into darkness.