Psalms Chapter 88
| 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. | 10 | Wilt 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 daily like water; they compassed me about together. | 18 | Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. |