Psalms 88 A Song. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah, to the chief musician on Mahalath, to make humble. A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah God of my salvation, I have cried in the day, in the night before You.

LITV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ A Song. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah, to the chief musician on Mahalath, to make humble. A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah God of my salvation, I have cried in the day, in the night before You. ² Let my prayer come before You; bow down Your ear to my cry. ³ For my soul is full with evils, and my life touches Sheol. ⁴ I am counted with those who go down to the Pit; I have been like a feeble man, ⁵ free among the dead, as pierced ones lying in the grave, whom You remember no more; yea by Your hand they are cut off. ⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places; in the deeps. ⁷ Your fury has lain hard upon me, and You afflict me with all Your waves. Selah. ⁸ You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them; I am shut up, I will not go out. ⁹ My eye mourns because of affliction; O Jehovah, I have called on You every day; I have spread out my hands to You. ¹⁰ For will You do wonders to the dead? Or shall the departed spirits rise and thank You? Selah. ¹¹ Shall Your mercy be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness amidst ruin? ¹² Shall Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ¹³ But to You I have cried, O Jehovah; and in the morning my prayer shall go before You. ¹⁴ O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul; why do You hide Your face from me? ¹⁵ I am afflicted and dying from childhood; I suffer Your terrors; I am distracted. ¹⁶ Your fierce wrath goes over me; Your terrors have cut me off. ¹⁷ They surrounded me like waters all the day long; they have come together around me. ¹⁸ You have taken lover and friend far from me, he who knows me, into darkness.