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88:1  A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and throughout the night before You.
88:2  Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry of lamentation!
88:3  For my soul has been saturated with calamities, And my life has reached Sheol.
88:4  I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength,
88:5  Released among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And they are cut off from Your hand.
88:6  You have put me in the pit far below, In dark places, in the depths.
88:7  Your wrath lies upon me, And You afflict me with all Your breaking waves. Selah.
88:8  You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have set me as an abomination to them; I am shut up and cannot go out.
88:9  My eye has wasted away because of affliction; I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh; I have spread out my hands to You.
88:10  Will You do wonders for the dead? Will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.
88:11  Will Your lovingkindness be recounted in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
88:12  Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
88:13  But as for me, O Yahweh, I have cried out to You for help, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
88:14  O Yahweh, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?
88:15  I have been afflicted and about to breathe my last from my youth on; I bear Your terrors; I am overcome.
88:16  Your burning anger has passed over me; Your horrors have destroyed me.
88:17  They have surrounded me like water all day long; They have encompassed me altogether.
88:18  You have removed lover and friend far from me; My acquaintances are in darkness.