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