free among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, and who have been cut off from Your hand.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.

For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit wastes away! Do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.