Psalms, 88

1. [Song Psalm Of the sons of Korah In sickness In suffering Poem For Heman the native-born] Yahweh, God of my salvation, when I cry out to you in the night,

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:

2. may my prayer reach your presence, hear my cry for help.

2. Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

3. For I am filled with misery, my life is on the brink of Sheol;

3. For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

4. already numbered among those who sink into oblivion, I am as one bereft of strength,

4. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:

5. left alone among the dead, like the slaughtered lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off as they are from your protection.

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. You have plunged me to the bottom of the grave, in the darkness, in the depths;

6. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7. weighted down by your anger, kept low by your waves.Pause

7. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.

8. You have deprived me of my friends, made me repulsive to them, imprisoned, with no escape;

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. my eyes are worn out with suffering. I call to you, Yahweh, all day, I stretch out my hands to you.

9. Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

10. Do you work wonders for the dead, can shadows rise up to praise you?Pause

10. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.

11. Do they speak in the grave of your faithful love, of your constancy in the place of perdition?

11. Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?

12. Are your wonders known in the darkness, your saving justice in the land of oblivion?

12. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13. But, for my part, I cry to you, Yahweh, every morning my prayer comes before you;

13. But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

14. why, Yahweh, do you rebuff me, turn your face away from me?

14. LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?

15. Wretched and close to death since childhood, I have borne your terrors -- I am finished!

15. I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

16. Your anger has overwhelmed me, your terrors annihilated me.

16. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

17. They flood around me all day long, close in on me all at once.

17. They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

18. You have deprived me of friends and companions, and all that I know is the dark.

18. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into darkness.