I am forsaken among the dead,
He feels set apart with the dead, like the slain in the grave who seem cut off from remembrance and care.
This verse portrays the speaker as already sharing in the isolation of the grave.
1A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. 2May my prayer come before You; 3For my soul is full of troubles, 4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. 5I am forsaken among the dead, 6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, 7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; 8You have removed my friends from me; 9My eyes grow dim with grief. 10Do You work wonders for the dead? 11Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, 12Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, 13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; 14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? 15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. 16Your wrath has swept over me; 17All day long they engulf me like water; 18You have removed my beloved and my friend;