88:1 For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth. A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. Lord, you are the God who saves me. Day and night I cry out to you.
88:2 Please hear my prayer. Pay attention to my cry for help.
88:4 People think my life is over. I’m like someone who doesn’t have any strength.
88:5 People treat me as if I were dead. I’m like those who have been killed and are now in the grave. You don’t even remember them anymore. They are cut off from your care.
88:6 It’s as if you have put me deep down in the grave. It’s as if you have put me in that deep, dark place.
88:7 Your great anger lies heavy on me. All the waves of your anger have crashed over me.
88:8 You have taken my closest friends away from me. You have made me sickening to them. I feel trapped and can’t escape.
88:9 I’m crying so much I can’t see very well. Lord, I call out to you every day. I lift up my hands to you in prayer.
88:10 Do you do wonderful things for those who are dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you?
88:11 Do those who are dead speak about your love? Do those who are in the grave tell how faithful you are?
88:12 Are your wonderful deeds known in that dark place? Are your holy acts known in that land where the dead are forgotten?
88:13 Lord, I cry out to you for help. In the morning I pray to you.
88:14 Lord, why do you say no to me? Why do you turn your face away from me?
88:15 I’ve been in pain ever since I was young. I’ve been close to death. You have made me suffer terrible things. I have lost all hope.
88:16 Your great anger has swept over me. Your terrors have destroyed me.
88:17 All day long they surround me like a flood. They have closed in all around me.
88:18 You have taken my friends and neighbors away from me. Darkness is my closest friend.
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