Psalm 88

1. 1

   O LORD, my God, my Savior, *
   by day and night I cry to you.

2. 2

   Let my prayer enter into your presence; *
   incline your ear to my lamentation.

3. 3

   For I am full of trouble; *
   my life is at the brink of the grave.

4. 4

   I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; *
   I have become like one who has no strength;

5. 5

   Lost among the dead, *
   like the slain who lie in the grave,

6. 6

   Whom you remember no more, *
   for they are cut off from your hand.

7. 7

   You have laid me in the depths of the Pit, *
   in dark places, and in the abyss.

8. 8

   Your anger weighs upon me heavily, *
   and all your great waves overwhelm me.

9. 9

   You have put my friends far from me; you have made me to be abhorred by them; *
   I am in prison and cannot get free.

10. 10

    My sight has failed me because of trouble; *
    LORD, I have called upon you daily; I have stretched out my hands to you.

11. 11

    Do you work wonders for the dead? *
    will those who have died stand up and give you thanks?

12. 12

    Will your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? *
    your faithfulness in the land of destruction?

13. 13

    Will your wonders be known in the dark? *
    or your righteousness in the country where all is forgotten?

14. 14

    But as for me, O LORD, I cry to you for help; *
    in the morning my prayer comes before you.

15. 15

    LORD, why have you rejected me? *
    why have you hidden your face from me?

16. 16

    Ever since my youth, I have been wretched and at the point of death; *
    I have borne your terrors with a troubled mind.

17. 17

    Your blazing anger has swept over me; *
    your terrors have destroyed me;

18. 18

    They surround me all day long like a flood; *
    they encompass me on every side.

19. 19

    My friend and my neighbor you have put away from me, *
    and darkness is my only companion.

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