WEB Psalms 88 Chapter
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:
88:2
Let my prayer come before thee: incline thy ear to my cry;
88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.
88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
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.
88:6
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
88:8
Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.
88:9
My eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee.
88:10
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.
88:11
Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?
88:12
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
88:13
But to thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
88:14
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?
88:15
I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
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Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
88:17
They came around me daily like water; they encompassed me together.
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Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] my acquaintance into darkness.