BBE Psalms 88 Chapter
88:1
88:2
Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:
88:3
For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
88:4
I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
88:5
My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
88:6
You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
88:7
The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
88:8
You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
88:9
My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
88:10
Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)
88:11
Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
88:12
May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
88:13
But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.
88:14
Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
88:15
I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
88:16
The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.
88:17
They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.
88:18
You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.