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Chapter 88 |
| 1 | O lord God of
my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: |
| 2 | Let my prayer
come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; |
| 3 | For my soul is
full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. |
| 4 | I am
counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no
strength: |
| 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.
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| 6 | Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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| 7 | Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy
waves. Selah. |
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8 | 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. |
| 9 |
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. |
| 10 | Wilt
thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee?
Selah. |
| 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? |
| 13 | But unto
thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent
thee. |
| 14 |
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face
from me? |
| 15
| I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I
suffer thy terrors I am distracted. |
| 16 | Thy fierce wrath goeth over
me; thy terrors have cut me off. |
| 17 | They came round about me
daily like water; they compassed me about together. |
| 18 | Lover and
friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. |
