psalms88
- 1O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
- 2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
- 3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
- 4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
- 5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
- 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- 7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
- 8Thou 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.
- 9Mine 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.
- 11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
- 12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
- 13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
- 14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
- 15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
- 16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
- 17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
- 18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
