88Psalms 88

PSAL. LXXXVIII. / A prayer contayning a grieuous complaint. / A song Psalme for the sonnes of Korah, to the chiefe Musician vpon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.

1O Lord God of my saluation, I haue cried day and night before thee.Select Psalms 88:1

2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine eare vnto my cry.Select Psalms 88:2

3For my soule is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh vnto the graue.Select Psalms 88:3

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

5Free among the dead, like the slaine that lie in the graue, whom thou remembrest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.Select Psalms 88:5

6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit: in darkenesse, in the deepes.Select Psalms 88:6

7Thy wrath lieth hard vpon me: and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waues. Selah.Select Psalms 88:7

8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from mee: thou hast made me an abomination vnto them: I am shut vp, and I cannot come forth.Select Psalms 88:8

9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction, Lord, I haue called daily vpon thee: I haue stretched out my hands vnto thee.Select Psalms 88:9

10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shal the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.Select Psalms 88:10

11Shall thy louing kindnesse be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnesse in destruction?Select Psalms 88:11

12Shall thy wonders be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnesse in the land of forgetfulnesse?Select Psalms 88:12

13But vnto thee haue I cried, O Lord, and in the morning shall my prayer preuent thee.Select Psalms 88:13

14Lord, why castest thou off my soule? why hidest thou thy face from me?Select Psalms 88:14

15I am afflicted and ready to die, from my youth vp: while I suffer thy terrours, I am distracted.Select Psalms 88:15

16Thy fierce wrath goeth ouer me: thy terrours haue cut me off.Select Psalms 88:16

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

18Louer and friend hast thou put farre from me: and mine acquaintance into darkenesse.Select Psalms 88:18