Psalms Chapter 88 (Index)

001  A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

002  Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

003  For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

004  I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

005  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.

006  Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

007  Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

008  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.

009  Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

010  Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

011  Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

012  Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

013  But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

014  LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

015  I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

016  Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

017  They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

018  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.