Psalms 88
- 1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
- 2 Let my prayer come before you: incline yours ear unto my cry;
- 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws nigh unto the grave.
- 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:
- 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.
- 6 You have laid me in the low pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- 7 Your wrath lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
- 8 You have put away mine acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
- 9 Mine eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands unto you.
- 10 Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.
- 11 Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?
- 12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
- 13 But unto you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you.
- 14 LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?
- 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted.
- 16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
- 17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
- 18 Lover and friend have you put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
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