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