A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. 2O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee. 3Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition. 4For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. 5I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, 6Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 7They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.