88Psalms 88

1O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:Select Psalms 88:1

2Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear to my cry;Select Psalms 88:2

3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave.Select Psalms 88:3

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

5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.Select Psalms 88:5

6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.Select Psalms 88:6

7Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.Select Psalms 88:7

8You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.Select Psalms 88:8

9My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you.Select Psalms 88:9

10Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.Select Psalms 88:10

11Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?Select Psalms 88:11

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

13But to you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you.Select Psalms 88:13

14LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?Select Psalms 88:14

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

16Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.Select Psalms 88:16

17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.Select Psalms 88:17

18Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.Select Psalms 88:18