Home Master Index
←Prev   Psalms 88 as rendered by/in  Next→ 


88:1  O Lord, the God who saves me, by day I cry out. At night I cry before you.
88:2  May my prayer come before you. Turn your ear to my cry.
88:3  Indeed, my soul has had its fill of troubles, and my life has arrived at the grave.
88:4  I am treated like those who go down to the pit. I am like someone without strength.
88:5  I am turned loose with the dead. I am like the slain who lie in the grave, like the ones you do not remember anymore, like those who are cut off from your hand.
88:6  You have put me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the depths.
88:7  Your wrath presses against me. Interlude You have battered me with all your breakers.
88:8  You have distanced my acquaintances from me. You have made me repulsive to them. I am shut in and I cannot get out.
88:9  My eyesight grows dim from affliction. I call to you, O Lord, every day. I spread out my hands to you.
88:10  Is it for the dead that you do a miracle? Interlude Do the spirits of the dead rise up and praise you?
88:11  Is your mercy declared in the tomb, your faithfulness in decay?
88:12  Is your wonderful work known in the darkness? Is your righteousness known in the land of forgetfulness?
88:13  But I cry to you, O Lord, and in the morning my prayer comes before you.
88:14  Why, O Lord, do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
88:15  I have been afflicted and I have been close to death since my youth. I have endured your terrors. I am in despair.
88:16  Your rage has swept over me. Your terrors have destroyed me.
88:17  All day long they surround me like water. They have battered me completely.
88:18  You have distanced my loved one and friend from me. My only friend is darkness.