Psalms 88
1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
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.
2 Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear to my cry;
Let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my cry.
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.
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.
6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
7 Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. (Selah)
Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. (Selah)
8 You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
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.
9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you.
Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10 Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? (Selah)
Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? (Selah)
11 Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?
Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction?
12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 But to you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you.
But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.
14 LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?
Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted.
I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.
16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought:
17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together.
18 Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.
