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88:1  A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician; set to chant mournfully. A didactic or reflective poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You.
88:2  Let my prayer come before You and enter into Your presence; Incline Your ear to my cry!
88:3  For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
88:4  I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave); I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],
88:5  Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead, Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave, Whom You no longer remember, And they are cut off from Your hand.
88:6  You have laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths.
88:7  Your wrath has rested heavily upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.
88:8  You have put my friends far from me; You have made me an object of loathing to them. I am shut up and I cannot go out.
88:9  My eye grows dim with sorrow. O Lord, I have called on You every day; I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].
88:10  Will You perform wonders for the dead? Shall the departed spirits arise and praise You? Selah.
88:11  Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?
88:12  Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?
88:13  But I have cried out to You, O Lord, for help; And in the morning my prayer will come to You.
88:14  O Lord, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
88:15  I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on; I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.
88:16  Your fierce wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
88:17  They have surrounded me like flood waters all day long; They have completely encompassed me.
88:18  Lover and friend You have placed far from me; My familiar friends are in darkness.