| Scripture | Additional Comments | 
| 1 A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah, to the Overseer, 'Concerning the Sickness of Afflictions.' An instruction, by Heman the Ezrahite. |  | 
| O Jehovah, God of my salvation, Daily I have cried, nightly before Thee, |  | 
| 2 My prayer cometh in before Thee, Incline Thine ear to my loud cry, |  | 
| 3 For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol. |  | 
| 4 I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, I have been as a man without strength. |  | 
| 5 Among the dead free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off. |  | 
| 6 Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths. |  | 
| 7 Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And [with] all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah. |  | 
| 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up I go not forth. |  | 
| 9 Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands. |  | 
| 10 To the dead dost Thou do wonders  Do Rephaim rise  do they thank Thee  Selah. |  | 
| 11 Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave  Thy faithfulness in destruction |  | 
| 12 Are Thy wonders known in the darkness  And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness |  | 
| 13 And I, unto Thee, O Jehovah, I have cried, And in the morning doth my prayer come before Thee. |  | 
| 14 Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul  Thou hidest Thy face from me. |  | 
| 15 I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors I pine away. |  | 
| 16 Over me hath Thy wrath passed, Thy terrors have cut me off, |  | 
| 17 They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together, |  | 
| 18 Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance [is] the place of darkness! |  |