I cry to You, O יהוה my Rock: Do not be deaf to me! For if You are silent to me, I shall be like those who go down to the pit.
He has redeemed my being from going down to the Pit, and my life sees the light.
I cry out to יהוה with my voice; I pray to יהוה with my voice.
I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare before Him my distress.
Hasten, answer me, O יהוה ; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those going down into the pit.
יהוה is my rock and my stronghold and my deliverer; My Ě
O My Elohim, I call by day, but You do not answer; And by night, but I find no rest.
I cried to יהוה with my voice, And He heard me from His set-apart mountain. Selah.
Sing praise to יהוה, You kind ones of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His Set-apartness.
“What gain is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Would dust praise You? Would it declare Your truth?
This You have seen, O יהוה ; Do not be silent. O יהוה, do not be far from me.
“Hear my prayer, O יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
I say to Ě
Attend to the voice of my cry, My Sovereign and my Elohim, For unto You I pray.
Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut its mouth on me.
My voice is to Elohim, and I cry; My voice is to Elohim, and He listened to me.
O Elohim, do not remain silent! Do not be speechless, And do not be still, O Ě
“Let us swallow them alive like the grave, And entirely, like those going down to the pit.
“Trust in יהוה forever, for in Yah, יהוה, is a rock of ages.
“For the grave does not thank You, nor death praise You; those who go down to the pit do not watch for Your truth.
and he threw him into the pit of the deep, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should lead the nations no more astray until the thousand years were ended. And after that he has to be released for a little while.