Psalms 88
1 Yahweh God, you who rescues me, all during each day I call out [to you] to help me, and I cry out to you during each night also.
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 Listen [IDM] to my prayer [DOU], while I cry out to you [for help]!
Let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my cry.
3 I have experienced many troubles/difficulties, and I am about to die [MTY] and go where dead people are. (Sheol h7585)
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
4 Because I have no more strength, [other people also] consider that I will soon die.
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
5 I am like a corpse that has been abandoned; I am like dead people who lie in their graves, people who have been completely forgotten, because you do not take care of them any more.
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 [It is as though] you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit, into a place where they throw corpses.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
7 [It seems like] you are very angry with me, and [it is as though] you have crushed me like [ocean] waves [crash down on people] [MET].
Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. (Selah)
8 You have caused my friends to (avoid/stay away from) me; I have become repulsive to them. [It is as though] I am in a prison and cannot escape.
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 eyes cannot see well because I cry very much. Yahweh, every day I call out to you [to help me]; I lift up my hands to you [while I pray].
Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10 You certainly do not [RHQ] perform miracles for dead people! Their spirits do not [RHQ] arise to praise you!
Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? (Selah)
11 Corpses in the grave certainly do not tell about your faithfully loving us [RHQ], and in the place where people are finally destroyed, no one tells about what you faithfully [do for us] [RHQ].
Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction?
12 No one in the deep dark pit ever sees the miracles that you perform [RHQ], and no one in the place where people have been completely forgotten tells about your being good to us.
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 But [as for me], Yahweh, I cry out to you [to help me]; each morning I pray to you.
But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.
14 Yahweh, why do you reject me [RHQ]? Why do you turn away from me [RHQ]?
Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?
15 All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died; I am (in despair/very discouraged) because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me.
I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.
16 [I feel that] you have crushed me because of your being angry with me; the terrible things that you are doing to me are almost destroying me.
Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought:
17 [I feel as though] they surround me like a flood [SIM]; they are (closing in on/crushing) me from all sides.
They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together.
18 You have caused [even] my friends and others whom I love to avoid me, and [it is as though] the only friend that I have is darkness.
Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.
