Psalms 88
1 “A song or psalm of the sons of Korach, to the chief musician upon Machalath-le'annoth, a Maskil of Heman the Ezrachite.” O Lord the God of my salvation, by day do I cry, [and] at night I am 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 unto thy presence; incline thy ear unto my entreaty.
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 counted with those that descend into the pit; I am become as a man without vigor:
to devise: count with to go down pit to be like/as great man nothing strength
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that dwell in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more; and those that are cut off by 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 pit of the lower world, in darkness, in the depths.
to set: put me in/on/with pit lower in/on/with darkness in/on/with depth
7 Upon me lieth heavily thy fury, and with all thy billows hast thou afflicted me. (Selah)
upon me to support rage your and all wave your to afflict (Selah)
8 Thou hast removed my acquaintances far from me; thou hast rendered me an abomination unto them: I am imprisoned, and I cannot go 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 My eye languisheth by reason of affliction: I call on thee, O Lord, every day, I stretch out unto thee my hands.
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 display wonders to the dead? shall the departed arise [and] thank 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 kindness be related in the grave? thy faithfulness in the place of corruption?
to recount in/on/with grave kindness your faithfulness your in/on/with Abaddon
12 Shall thy wonders be acknowledged in the darkness? 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 Yet I cry indeed aloud unto thee, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
and I to(wards) you LORD to cry and in/on/with morning prayer my to meet you
14 Why, O Lord, wilt thou cast off my soul? [why] wilt thou hide thy face from me?
to/for what? LORD to reject soul my to hide face your from me
15 I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, I am distracted.
afflicted I and to die from youth to lift: bear terror your to distract
16 Over me have the fires of thy wrath passed; thy terrors have destroyed me;
upon me to pass burning anger your terror your to destroy me
17 They encompass me like water all the time; they have closed in round about me together.
to turn: surround me like/as water all [the] day to surround upon me unitedness
18 Thou hast removed far from me lover and friend, my acquaintances [are in] darkness.
to remove from me to love: lover and neighbor to know my darkness
