¶The prophete after a most lamentable sort, desireth God to heare his prayers. He com∣playneth of his great calamities and extreme perilles, wherin he was wrapt by sicknes, by ieoperdie of death, and by the losse of his frendes, as one forsaken of God, and with∣out al comfort. He is loth to die, for that then he can not prayse God with the faythful.
[unspec A] 1 O God the Lorde of my saluation, I crye day and night before thee: let my prayer enter into thy presence, encline thyne eare vnto my crying.
2 For my soule is full of miserie: and my life toucheth the graue.
3 I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit: and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength.
4 I am free among the dead: like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue, whom thou remembrest no more, and are cut away from thy (a) 1.1 hande.
5 Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit: in darknes and in deepenes.
6 Thyne indignation sore presseth me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes. Selah.
[unspec B] 7 Thou hast put away myne acquain∣taunce farre fro me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, I can not get foorth.
8 My sight fayleth through my afflicti∣on O God: I haue called dayly vpon thee, I haue stretched out mine handes vnto thee.
9 Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead? or shal the dead rise vp againe [and] (b) 1.2 acknowledge thee? Selah.
10 Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue? or thy faythfulnes in destruction?
11 Shall thy wonderous workes be kno∣wen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the lande of (c) 1.3 forgetfulnes?
12 But vnto thee do I crye O God: and my prayer commeth early in the mor∣ning before thee.
13 O God, why abhorrest thou my soule: and [why] hidest thou thy face from me?
14 I am in miserie, I labour euen from [unspec C] my youth with the panges of death: I haue suffered thy terrours, [and] I am styll in doubt.
15 Thyne indignation hath gone ouer me: and thy terrours haue vndone me.