Psalmorum 88
1 Psalmus, Canticum psalmi, in finem, filiis Core, pro Maheleth ad respondendum, intellectus Eman Israelitae. Domine Deus salutis meae: in die clamavi, et nocte coram te.
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.
2 Intret in conspectu tuo oratio mea: inclina aurem tuam ad precem meam:
Listen [IDM] to my prayer [DOU], while I cry out to you [for help]!
I have experienced many troubles/difficulties, and I am about to die [MTY] and go where dead people are. (Sheol h7585)
4 Aestimatus sum cum descendentibus in lacum: factus sum sicut homo sine adiutorio,
Because I have no more strength, [other people also] consider that I will soon die.
5 inter mortuos liber, Sicut vulnerati dormientes in sepulchris, quorum non es memor amplius: et ipsi de manu tua repulsi sunt.
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.
6 Posuerunt me in lacu inferiori: in tenebrosis, et in umbra mortis.
[It is as though] you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit, into a place where they throw corpses.
7 Super me confirmatus est furor tuus: et omnes fluctus tuos induxisti super me.
[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].
8 Longe fecisti notos meos a me: posuerunt me abominationem sibi. Traditus sum, et non egrediebar:
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.
9 oculi mei languerunt prae inopia. Clamavi ad te Domine tota die: expandi ad te manus meas.
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].
10 Numquid mortuis facies mirabilia: aut medici suscitabunt, et confitebuntur tibi?
You certainly do not [RHQ] perform miracles for dead people! Their spirits do not [RHQ] arise to praise you!
11 Numquid narrabit aliquis in sepulchro misericordiam tuam, et veritatem tuam in perditione?
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].
12 Numquid cognoscentur in tenebris mirabilia tua: et iustitia tua in terra oblivionis?
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.
13 Et ego ad te, Domine, clamavi, et mane oratio mea praeveniet te.
But [as for me], Yahweh, I cry out to you [to help me]; each morning I pray to you.
14 Ut quid Domine repellis orationem meam: avertis faciem tuam a me?
Yahweh, why do you reject me [RHQ]? Why do you turn away from me [RHQ]?
15 Pauper sum ego, et in laboribus a iuventute mea: exaltatus autem, humiliatus sum et conturbatus.
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.
16 In me transierunt irae tuae: et terrores tui conturbaverunt me.
[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.
17 Circumdederunt me sicut aqua tota die: circumdederunt me simul.
[I feel as though] they surround me like a flood [SIM]; they are (closing in on/crushing) me from all sides.
18 Elongasti a me amicum, et proximum: et notos meos a miseria.
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.
