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Psalms 88
A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the
end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the
Ezrahite.
O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the
day, and in the night before thee.
Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to
my petition.
For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn
nigh to hell.
I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am
become as a man without help,
free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the
sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they
are cast off from thy hand.
They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places,
and in the shadow of death.
Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou
hast brought in upon me.
Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they
have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered
up, and came not forth:
my eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried
to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians
raise to life, and give praise to thee?
Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and
thy truth in destruction?
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice
in the land of forgetfulness?
But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning
my prayer shall prevent thee.
Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou
away thy face from me?
I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted
have been humbled and troubled.
Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled
me.
They have come round about me like water all the day:
they have compassed me about together.
Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and
my acquaintance, because of misery.
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