Psalms 88

Webster(i) 1 + 2 (88:1)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: 3 (88:2)Let my prayer come before thee: incline thy ear to my cry; 4 (88:3)For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave. 5 (88:4)I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 6 (88:5)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. 7 (88:6)Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 8 (88:7)Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. 9 (88:8)Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. 10 (88:9)My eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee. 11 (88:10)Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 12 (88:11)Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 13 (88:12)Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 14 (88:13)But to thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee. 15 (88:14)LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? 16 (88:15)I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 17 (88:16)Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. 18 (88:17)They came around me daily like water; they encompassed me together. 19 (88:18)Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.