[A Psalm] of David. To You, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me; lest You be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to You? Or shall it declare Your truth?

Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like them that go down to the pit.

I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not.

For You have chosen my soul, that it should not perish; and You have cast all [my] sins behind me.

For they that are in the grave shall not praise You, neither shall the dead bless You, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for Your mercy.

and great waters shall cover you, and I shall bring you down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause you to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that you may not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;

[ 2:7] to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.

Yes, we have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,

I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I have become as a broken vessel.

Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me.

My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

For when we were weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

For although He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we are weak in Him, yet we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.