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88:1  A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, 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 counted 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 LORD, I have spread forth my hands unto thee.
88:10  Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall they that are deceased 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 LORD, have I cried, and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
88:14  LORD, 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.