| 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. |
| 6 | Thou hast laid me
in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. |
| 7 | Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me
with all thy waves. Selah. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
