[1] Lord God, you are my Savior. I have been praying to you day and night.
[2] Please pay attention to my prayers. Listen to my prayers for mercy.
[3] My soul has had enough of this pain! I will soon die.
[4] People already treat me like a dead man, like a man too weak to live.
[5] Look for me among the dead people. I am like a dead body lying in the grave, one of the dead people you forgot, cut off from you and your care.
[6] You put me in that hole in the ground. Yes, you put me in that dark place.
[7] God, you were angry at me, and you punished me. selah
[8] My friends have left me. They all avoid me like a person no one wants to touch. I am locked in the house and I can’t go out.
[9] My eyes hurt from ˻crying about˼ all my suffering. Lord, I pray to you constantly! I lift my arms in prayer to you.
[10] Lord, do you do miracles for dead people? Do ghosts rise up and praise you? No! selah
[11] Dead people in their graves can’t talk about your love. Dead people in the world of the dead can’t talk about your loyalty.
[12] Dead people lying in darkness can’t see the amazing things you do. Dead people in the World of the Forgotten can’t talk about your goodness.
[13] Lord, I am asking you to help me! Early each morning I pray to you.
[14] Lord, why have you abandoned me? Why do you refuse to listen to me?
[15] Since I was young, I was weak and sick. I have suffered your anger, I am helpless.
[16] Lord, you were angry at me, and the punishment is killing me.
[17] The aches and pains are always with me. I feel like I am drowning in my aches and pains.
[18] And Lord, you forced all my friends and loved ones to leave me. Only darkness stayed to be with me.