Psalms 88
1 A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the Ezrahite. Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day [and] in the night before thee.
song melody to/for son: descendant/people Korah to/for to conduct upon Mahalath to/for to sing Maskil to/for Heman [the] Ezrahite LORD God salvation my day to cry in/on/with night before you
2 Let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my cry.
to come (in): come to/for face: before your prayer my to stretch ear your to/for cry my
for to satisfy in/on/with distress: harm soul my and life my to/for hell: Sheol to touch (Sheol h7585)
4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
to devise: count with to go down pit to be like/as great man nothing strength
5 Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.
in/on/with to die free like slain: killed to lie down: be dead grave which not to remember them still and they(masc.) from hand your to cut
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
to set: put me in/on/with pit lower in/on/with darkness in/on/with depth
7 Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. (Selah)
upon me to support rage your and all wave your to afflict (Selah)
8 Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
to remove to know my from me to set: make me abomination to/for them to restrain and not to come out: come
9 Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
eye my to languish from affliction to call: call to you LORD in/on/with all day to spread to(wards) you palm my
10 Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? (Selah)
to/for to die to make: do wonder if: surely no shade to arise: rise to give thanks you (Selah)
11 Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction?
to recount in/on/with grave kindness your faithfulness your in/on/with Abaddon
12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
to know in/on/with darkness wonder your and righteousness your in/on/with land: country/planet forgetfulness
13 But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.
and I to(wards) you LORD to cry and in/on/with morning prayer my to meet you
14 Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?
to/for what? LORD to reject soul my to hide face your from me
15 I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.
afflicted I and to die from youth to lift: bear terror your to distract
16 Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought:
upon me to pass burning anger your terror your to destroy me
17 They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together.
to turn: surround me like/as water all [the] day to surround upon me unitedness
18 Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.
to remove from me to love: lover and neighbor to know my darkness
