PS-88:1 A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief

Musician upon

Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of

my salvation,

I have cried day [and] night before thee:

PS-88:2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto

my cry;

PS-88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth

nigh unto the

grave.

PS-88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am

as a man [that

hath] no strength:

PS-88:5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the

grave, whom thou

rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

PS-88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the

deeps.

PS-88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted

[me] with all

thy waves. Selah.

PS-88:8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou

hast made me an

abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.

PS-88:9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have

called daily

upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

PS-88:10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead

arise [and] praise

thee? Selah.

PS-88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or]

thy

faithfulness in destruction?

PS-88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy

righteousness in the

land of forgetfulness?

PS-88:13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning

shall my

prayer prevent thee.

PS-88:14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou

thy face from

me?

PS-88:15 I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up:

[while] I

suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

PS-88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me

off.

PS-88:17 They came round about me daily like water; they

compassed me about

together.

PS-88:18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine

acquaintance

into darkness.

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