DouayRheims(i)
1 A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. (88:2) O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.
2 (88:3) Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.
3 (88:4) For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
4 (88:5) I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,
5 (88:6) Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6 (88:7) They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
7 (88:8) Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
8 (88:9) Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:
9 (88:10) My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.
10 (88:11) Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?
11 (88:12) Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction?
12 (88:13) Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
13 (88:14) But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.
14 (88:15) Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?
15 (88:16) I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.
16 (88:17) Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.
17 (88:18) They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.
18 (88:19) Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.