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Psalms 88

¹A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician; set to chant mournfully. A didactic or reflective poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You.

²Let my prayer come before You and enter into Your presence; Incline Your ear to my cry!

³For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).

⁴I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave); I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],

⁵[1] Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead, Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave, Whom You no longer remember, And they are cut off from Your hand.

⁶You have laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths.

⁷Your wrath has rested heavily upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

⁸You have put my friends far from me; You have made me an[2] object of loathing to them. I am shut up and I cannot go out.

⁹My eye grows dim with sorrow. O LORD, I have called on You every day; I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].

¹⁰Will You perform wonders for the dead? Shall the departed spirits arise and praise You? Selah.

¹¹Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?

¹²Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?

¹³But I have cried out to You, O LORD, for help; And in the morning my prayer will come to You.

¹⁴O LORD, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

¹⁵I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on; I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

¹⁶Your fierce wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

¹⁷They have surrounded me like flood waters all day long; They have completely encompassed me.

¹⁸Lover and friend You have placed far from me; My familiar friends are in darkness.