Psalms 88

1. ¹A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Leader; upon Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
2. ²O LORD, God of my salvation, what time I cry in the night before Thee,
3. ³Let my prayer come before Thee, incline Thine ear unto my cry.
4. ⁴For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
5. ⁵I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am become as a man that hath no help;
6. ⁶Set apart among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom Thou rememberest no more; and they are cut off from Thy hand.
7. ⁷Thou hast laid me in the nether-most pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
8. ⁸Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and all Thy waves Thou pressest down. Selah
9. ⁹Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them; I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
10. ¹⁰Mine eye languisheth by reason of affliction; I have called upon Thee, O LORD, every day, I have spread forth my hands unto Thee.
11. ¹¹Wilt Thou work wonders for the dead? Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks? Selah
12. ¹²Shall Thy mercy be declared in the grave? or Thy faithfulness in destruction?
13. ¹³Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark? and Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
14. ¹⁴But as for me, unto Thee, O LORD, do I cry, and in the morning doth my prayer come to meet Thee.
15. ¹⁵LORD, why castest Thou off my soul? Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?
16. ¹⁶I am afflicted and at the point of death from my youth up; I have borne Thy terrors, I am distracted.
17. ¹⁷Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
18. ¹⁸They came round about me like water all the day; they compassed me about together.
19. ¹⁹Friend and companion hast Thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

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