Psalms Chapter[BR] 88

1 *Gr. understanding - O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee.

Psalms Chapter[BR] 88

2 Let my prayer come in before thee; incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.

3 For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades.

4 I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;

5 free among the dead, as the slain ones *Alex. om. errimmenoi, cast out cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom thou rememberest no more; and they are rejected from thy hand.

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6 They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, and in the shadow of death.

7 Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.

8 Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.

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9 Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to thee.

10 Wilt thou work wonders for the dead? or shall *See Hebrew physicians raise them up, that they shall praise thee?

11 Shall any one declare thy mercy in the tomb? and thy truth in destruction?

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12 Shall thy wonders be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in a forgotten land?

13 But I cried to thee, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

14 Wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my *Heb. and Alex. soul prayer, and turn thy face away from me?

15 I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into *See 2 Co 4:8 despair.

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16 Thy wrath has passed over me; and thy terrors have greatly disquieted me.

17 They compassed me like water; all the day they beset me together.

18 Thou hast put far from me *Alex. friend and neighbour every friend, and mine acquaintances because of my wretchedness.