Psalms 88
88
PSALM 88
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
1Lord God, my Saviour, day and night
before thee cry'd have I.
2Before thee let my prayer come;
give ear unto my cry.
3For troubles great do fill my soul;
my life draws nigh the grave.
4I'm counted with those that go down to pit,
and no strength have.
5Ev'n free among the dead, like them
that slain in grave do lie;
Cut off from thy hand, whom no more
thou hast in memory.
6Thou hast me laid in lowest pit,
in deeps and darksome caves.
7Thy wrath lies hard on me, thou hast
me press'd with all thy waves.
8Thou hast put far from me my friends,
thou mad'st them to abhor me;
And I am so shut up, that I
find no evasion for me.
9By reason of affliction
mine eye mourns dolefully:
To thee, Lord, do I call,
and stretch my hands continually.
10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead?
shall they rise, and thee bless?
11Shall in the grave thy love be told?
in death thy faithfulness?
12Shall thy great wonders in the dark,
or shall thy righteousness
Be known to any in the land
of deep forgetfulness?
13But, Lord, to thee I cry'd; my pray'r
at morn prevent shall thee.
14Why, Lord, dost thou cast off my soul,
and hid'st thy face from me?
15Distress'd am I, and from my youth
I ready am to die;
Thy terrors I have borne, and am
distracted fearfully.
16The dreadful fierceness of thy wrath
quite over me doth go:
Thy terrors great have cut me off,
they did pursue me so.
17For round about me ev'ry day,
like water, they did roll;
And, gathering together, they
have compassed my soul.
18My friends thou hast put far from me,
and him that did me love;
And those that mine acquaintance were
to darkness didst remove.
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Tehillim 88
88
(Shir. Mizmor of the Bnei Korach. For the one directing. According to Machalat le'annot. Maskil of Heman the Ezrachi)
1 Hashem Elohei Yeshu'ati (G-d of my salvation), I have cried out yom valailah before Thee.
2 Let my tefillah come before Thee; incline Thine ear unto my cry;
3 For my nefesh is full of troubles; and my life draweth near unto Sheol.
4I am counted with them that go down into the bor (pit); I am like a gever (man) that hath no strength;
5Free among the mesim, like the slain that lie in the kever, whom Thou rememberest no more; and nigzaru (they are cut off, excluded)#88:5 See Isa 53:8 from Thy Yad (hand, power, care).
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest bor (pit), in darkness, in the deeps.
7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and Thou hast overwhelmed me with kol mishbarecha (all Thy waves, breakers). Selah
8 Thou hast estranged mine acquaintances far from me; Thou hast made me to'evot unto them; I am shut up, and I cannot escape.
9Mine eye groweth dim by reason of oni (affliction); Hashem, I have called daily upon Thee, I have stretched up my hands unto Thee.
10Wilt Thou show wonders to the mesim? Shall the lifeless arise and praise Thee? Selah
11Shall Thy chesed be declared in the kever? Or Thy emunah in Avaddon?
12Shall Thy wonders be known in the choshech? And Thy tzedakah in the Eretz Neshiyyah (land of forgetfulness, oblivion)?
13But unto Thee have I cried, Hashem; and in the boker shall my tefillah come before Thee.
14 Hashem, why castest Thou off my nefesh? Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?
15I am afflicted and govei'a (one being close to death) from my youth up; while I suffer Thy terrors I am distraught.
16Thy charon (fierce wrath) goeth over me; Thy terrors have flayed me.
17They came round about me daily like mayim; they close in, engulfing me.
18Ohev (lover) and re'a (companion) hast Thou estranged from me, and mine acquaintances are in darkness.#88:18 T.N. Ps 89 is a messianic Ps.
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