Psalms 88:1-18 A song of chanting to the sons of Korah to the overseer upon the lute, for affliction of instruction, for Heman the Ezrabite. O Jehovah, God of my salvation, the day have I cried in the night before thee.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ A song of chanting to the sons of Korah to the overseer upon the lute, for affliction of instruction, for Heman the Ezrabite. O Jehovah, God of my salvation, the day have I cried in the night before thee. ² My prayer shall come before thee: incline thine ear to my wailing; ³ For my soul was filled with evils, and my life touched upon hades. ⁴ I was reckoned with those going down to the pit: I was as a man of no strength: ⁵ Free among the dead, as they wounded lying down in the grave, whom thou no more didst remember them, and they were cut off by thy hand. ⁶ Thou didst set me in the pit beneath, in darknesses, in the shades. ⁷ Thy wrath lay upon me, and thou didst afflict with all thy breakers. Silence. ⁸ Thou didst remove far from me mine acquaintance; thou didst set me an abomination to them: I was shut up, and I shall not go forth. ⁹ Mine eye languished from affliction: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all the day, I stretched my hands to thee. ¹⁰ Wilt thou do wonder to the dead? if the shades shall arise, shall they praise thee? Silence. ¹¹ Shall thy mercy be recounted in the grave, thy faithfulness in destruction? ¹² Shall thy wonder be known in darkness, and thy justice in a land of oblivion? ¹³ And to thee, O Jehovah, I cried, and in the morning shall my prayer anticipate thee. ¹⁴ Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou cast off my soul? wilt thou hide thy face from me? ¹⁵ I am poor and expiring from youth: I bore thy terrors; I shall be perplexed. ¹⁶ Upon me thy burnings passed over; thy terrors made me silent ¹⁷ They surrounded me as water all the day; they folded round about me together. ¹⁸ Thou didst remove far from me lover and friend, mine acquaintance into darkness.