PSALM 88
A Song or Psalm for the sonsa
of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the
Ezrahite.
1 O LORD
God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2
Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath
no strength: 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. 6
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy
waves. Selah. 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. 9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I
have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10Wilt thou
shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 11
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness
in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy
righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But unto thee have
I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. 14
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? 15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I
suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over
me; thy terrors have cut me off. 17 They came round about me
dailyb
like water; they compassed me about together. 18 Lover and friend
hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
The Holy Bible
King James Version
The Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995. Oak
Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
a for
the sons: or, of the sons
b daily:
or, all the day
