Psalms 88
1 A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
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 your presence. Turn your ear to 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 among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
to devise: count with to go down pit to be like/as great man nothing strength
5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your 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 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
to set: put me in/on/with pit lower in/on/with darkness in/on/with depth
7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. (Selah)
upon me to support rage your and all wave your to afflict (Selah)
8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
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 eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
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 Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? (Selah)
to/for to die to make: do wonder if: surely no shade to arise: rise to give thanks you (Selah)
11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
to recount in/on/with grave kindness your faithfulness your in/on/with Abaddon
12 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your 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 to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
and I to(wards) you LORD to cry and in/on/with morning prayer my to meet you
14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your 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 your terrors, I am distracted.
afflicted I and to die from youth to lift: bear terror your to distract
16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
upon me to pass burning anger your terror your to destroy me
17 They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
to turn: surround me like/as water all [the] day to surround upon me unitedness
18 You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
to remove from me to love: lover and neighbor to know my darkness
