| Chapter 88 |
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{A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the Ezrahite.} Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee. |
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Let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my cry. |
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For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol. |
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I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength: |
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Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand. |
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Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps. |
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Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. |
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Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. |
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Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee. |
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Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah. |
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Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction? |
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Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? |
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But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee. |
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Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? |
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I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted. |
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Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought: |
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They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together. |
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Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness. |