< Psalms 88 >
1 A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
A song a psalm of [the] sons of Korah to the choirmaster on Machalath to sing a poem of Heman the Ezrachite. O Yahweh [the] God of salvation my day I have cried out in the night before you.
2 May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
May it come before you prayer my incline ear your to cry of entreaty my.
3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. (Sheol )
For it is surfeited with troubles being my and life my to Sheol they have reached. (Sheol )
4 I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
I am reckoned with [those who] go down of [the] pit I am like a man [whom] there not [is] strength.
5 I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
Among the dead a [person] set free like [those] slain - [who] lie of [the] grave whom not you remember them again and they from hand your they are cut off.
6 You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
You have put me in a pit of lowest parts in [the] dark places in [the] depths.
7 Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me.
On me it has lain anger your and all breakers your you have afflicted [me] (Selah)
8 You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
You have removed far away acquaintances my from me you have made me abominations to them [I am] shut up and not I will go out.
9 My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
Eye my it is faint from affliction I have called out to you O Yahweh on every day I have spread out to you hands my.
10 Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You?
¿ For the dead will you do wonder[s] or? [the] shades will they arise - will they give thanks to? you (Selah)
11 Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
¿ Will it be recounted in the grave covenant loyalty your faithfulness your in Abaddon.
12 Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
¿ Will it be known in the darkness wonder[s] your and righteousness your in [the] land of forgetting.
13 But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
And I - to you O Yahweh I cry for help and in the morning prayer my it comes to meet you.
14 Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
Why? O Yahweh do you reject self my do you hide? face your from me.
15 From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
[have been] afflicted I and [have been] about to die from youth I have borne terrors your I am perplexed.
16 Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
Over me they have passed anger your terrors your they have destroyed me.
17 All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
They have surrounded me like water all the day they have surrounded me altogether.
18 You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
You have removed far away from me [one who] loves and a friend acquaintances my darkness.