Chapter 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:12
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- for the sons: or, of the sons
- Maschil...: or, A Psalm of Heman the Ezrahite, giving instruction
2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thy ear to my cry;
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3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth near to the grave.
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4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
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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.1
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- from: or, by
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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7 Thy wrath lieth heavy upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
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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.
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9 My eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee.
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10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
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11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
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12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
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13 But to thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
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14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
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15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
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16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
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17 They came around me daily like water; they surrounded me together.1
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- daily: or, all the day
18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
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