Testaments

Psalms - Chapter 88 - Bible Basic English

  1. A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.
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  4. \O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
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  7. \Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:
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  10. \For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
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  13. \I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
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  16. \My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
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  19. \You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
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  22. \The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
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  25. \You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
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  28. \My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
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  31. \Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)
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  34. \Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
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  37. \May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
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  40. \But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.
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  43. \Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
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  46. \I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
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  49. \The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.
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  52. \They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.
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  55. \You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.