Psalms 88:1
O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
Psalms 88:2
Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear to my cry;
Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave.
Psalms 88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:
Psalms 88:5
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.
Psalms 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Psalms 88:7
Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
Psalms 88:8
You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psalms 88:9
My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you.
Psalms 88:10
Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.
Psalms 88:11
Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?
Psalms 88:12
Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psalms 88:13
But to you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you.
Psalms 88:14
LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?
Psalms 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted.
Psalms 88:16
Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
Psalms 88:17
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
Psalms 88:18
Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.