Psalm 88

0 A Song or Psalm ^afor the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon ¹Mahalath Leannoth, ^bMaschil of ²Heman the Ezrahite.

1 O Lord ¹God of my salvation, ²I have cried day and night before thee:

2 Let ¹my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

3 For ¹my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

4 I ¹am counted ²with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

5 ¹Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou ²rememberest no more: and they are cut off ^afrom thy hand.

6 Thou ¹hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7 Thy ¹wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

8 Thou ¹hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me ²an abomination unto them: I am ³shut up, and I cannot come forth.

9 Mine ¹eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, ²I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

10 ¹Wilt 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 ¹destruction?

12 Shall thy wonders be known in ¹the dark? and thy righteousness in the ²land of forgetfulness?

13 But ¹unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer ²prevent thee.

14 Lord, ¹why castest thou off my soul? why ²hidest thou thy face from me?

15 I am ¹afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while ²I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

16 Thy ¹fierce ^awrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

17 They ¹came round about me ^adaily like water; they compassed me about together.

18 ¹Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into ²darkness.