Psalms 88
1 A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and 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 enter into thy presence; 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 counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help:
to devise: count with to go down pit to be like/as great man nothing strength
5 Cast off among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more; and they 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 wrath 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 mine acquaintance 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 wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth 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 shew wonders to the dead? shall they that are deceased 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 lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or 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 unto thee, O LORD, have I cried, 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 LORD, why 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 ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
afflicted I and to die from youth to lift: bear terror your to distract
16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
upon me to pass burning anger your terror your to destroy me
17 They came round about me like water all the day long; they compassed me about together.
to turn: surround me like/as water all [the] day to surround upon me unitedness
18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
to remove from me to love: lover and neighbor to know my darkness
