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 thine ear unto my cry; |
88:3 |
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto 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 mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. |
88:9 |
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. |
88:10 |
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. |
88:11 |
Shall thy lovingkindness 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 unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent 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. |
88:16 |
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. |
88:17 |
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. |
88:18 |
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. |