Psalms 88
1 A SONG. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “SICKNESS TO AFFLICT.” AN INSTRUCTION OF HEMAN THE EZRAHITE. O YHWH, God of my salvation, Daily I have cried, nightly before You,
O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
2 My prayer comes in before You, Incline Your ear to my loud cry,
Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear to my cry;
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave. (Sheol h7585)
4 I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, I have been as a man without strength.
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:
5 Among the dead—free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom You have not remembered anymore, Indeed, they have been cut off by Your hand.
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.
6 You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7 Your fury has lain on me, And You have afflicted [with] all Your breakers. (Selah)
Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. (Selah)
8 You have put my acquaintance far from me, You have made me an abomination to them, Shut up—I do not go forth.
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.
9 My eye has grieved because of affliction, I called You, O YHWH, all the day, I have spread out my hands to You.
My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you.
10 Do You do wonders to the dead? Does Rephaim rise? Do they thank You? (Selah)
Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? (Selah)
11 Is Your kindness recounted in the grave? Your faithfulness in destruction?
Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?
12 Are Your wonders known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 And I, to You, O YHWH, I have cried, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
But to you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you.
14 Why, O YHWH, do You cast off my soul? You hide Your face from me.
LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?
15 I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Your terrors—I pine away.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted.
16 Your wrath has passed over me, Your terrors have cut me off,
Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
17 They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone around against me together,
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
18 You have put lover and friend far from me, My acquaintance [is] the place of darkness!
Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
