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 (Psalms) 88
88
1O יהוה, Elohim of my deliverance, By day I have cried out, In the night also before You,
2Let my prayer come before You, Incline Your ear to my cry.
3For my being is filled with evils, And my life draws near to She’ol.
4I have been reckoned among those Who go down to the pit; I have become like a man Who has no strength,
5Released among the dead, Like slain ones lying in the burial-site, Whom You have remembered no more, And who have been cut off from Your hand.
6You have put 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 breakers. Selah.
8You have put away my friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in and do not go out;
9My eye grows dim because of affliction. יהוה, I have called upon You, all day long; I have stretched out my hands to You.
10Would You work wonders for the dead? Would the dead rise to praise You? Selah.
11Is Your loving-commitment declared in the burial-site? Your trustworthiness in the place of destruction?
12Are Your wonders known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of no remembrance?
13But I, unto You I have cried, O יהוה, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
14יהוה, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
15I am afflicted and dying from childhood; I have borne frightening matters from You; I am in despair.
16Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your onslaughts have cut me off.
17They surrounded me like water all day long; They close in upon me altogether.
18You have put loved one and companion far from me, Darkness is my close friend!
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