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88:1 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:

88:2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thy ear to my cry;

88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.

88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

88:5 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.

88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

88:8 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

88:9 My eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee.

88:10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

88:11 Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

88:13 But to thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

88:14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

88:17 They came around me daily like water; they encompassed me together.

88:18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

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