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 or Psalme of Heman the Ezrahite to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah for him that excelleth upon Malath Leannoth. O Lord God of my saluation, I cry day and night before thee.
2 Listen [IDM] to my prayer [DOU], while I cry out to you [for help]!
Let my prayer enter into thy presence: incline thine eare vnto 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 soule is filled with euils, and my life draweth neere to the graue. (Sheol h7585)
4 Because I have no more strength, [other people also] consider that I will soon die.
I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without 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.
Free among the dead, like the slaine lying in the graue, whome thou remembrest no more, and they are cut off from thine hand.
6 [It is as though] you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit, into a place where they throw corpses.
Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit, in darkenes, and in the deepe.
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].
Thine indignation lyeth vpon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy waues. (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 away mine acquaintance farre from me, and made mee to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, and cannot get foorth.
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 is sorowfull through mine affliction: Lord, I call dayly vpon thee: I stretch out mine hands vnto thee.
10 You certainly do not [RHQ] perform miracles for dead people! Their spirits do not [RHQ] arise to praise you!
Wilt thou shewe a miracle to the dead? or shall the dead rise and prayse 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 louing kindenes be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnes 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 wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the land of obliuion?
13 But [as for me], Yahweh, I cry out to you [to help me]; each morning I pray to you.
But vnto thee haue I cryed, O Lord, and early shall my prayer come before thee.
14 Yahweh, why do you reject me [RHQ]? Why do you turn away from me [RHQ]?
Lord, why doest thou reiect my soule, and hidest 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 at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.
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.
Thine indignations goe ouer me, and thy feare hath cut me off.
17 [I feel as though] they surround me like a flood [SIM]; they are (closing in on/crushing) me from all sides.
They came round about me dayly like water, and compassed me 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.
My louers and friends hast thou put away from me, and mine acquaintance hid themselues.
