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Psalm 6:4-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

4 My soul too is shuddering greatly—
    and you, Lord, how long…?[a](A)
5 Turn back, Lord, rescue my soul;
    save me because of your mercy.
6 For in death there is no remembrance of you.
    Who praises you in Sheol?[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:4 How long?: elliptical for “How long will it be before you answer my prayer?” cf. Ps 13:2–3.
  2. 6:6 A motive for God to preserve the psalmist from death: in the shadowy world of the dead no one offers you praise. Sheol is the biblical term for the underworld where the insubstantial souls of dead human beings dwelt. It was similar to the Hades of Greek and Latin literature. In the second century B.C., biblical books begin to speak positively of life with God after death (Dn 12:1–3; Wis 3).
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