Psalms - Chapter 88

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1 | O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2 | Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3 | For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4 | I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
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 | Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7 | Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
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 | Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10 | Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11 | Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
12 | Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 | But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
14 | Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
15 | I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16 | Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
17 | They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
18 | Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

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