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88:1  O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee.
88:2  Let my prayer enter into thy presence; Incline thine ear unto my cry.
88:3  For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
88:4  I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
88:5  Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.
88:6  Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
88:7  Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah
88:8  Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
88:9  Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.
88:10  Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah
88:11  Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
88:12  Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
88:13  But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
88:14  Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?
88:15  I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
88:16  Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
88:17  They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.
88:18  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.