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88:1  (Shir. Mizmor of the Bnei Korach. For the one directing. According to Machalat le‘annot. Maskil of Herman the Ezrachi.) Hashem Elohei Yeshuati (G-d of my salvation), I have cried out yom valailah before Thee.
88:2  Let my tefillah come before Thee; incline Thine ear unto my cry;
88:3  For my nefesh is full of troubles; and my life draweth near unto Sheol.
88:4  I am counted with them that go down into the bor (pit); I am like a gever (man) that hath no strength;
88:5  Forsaken among the mesim, like the slain that lie in the kever, whom Thou rememberest no more; and nigzaru (they are cut off, excluded; see Isa 53:8) from Thy Yad (hand, power, care).
88:6  Thou hast laid me in the lowest bor (pit), in darkness, in the deeps.
88:7  Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and Thou hast overwhelmed me with kol mishbarecha (all Thy waves, breakers). Selah.
88:8  Thou hast estranged mine acquaintances far from me; Thou hast made me to’evot unto them; I am shut up, and I cannot escape.
88:9  Mine eye groweth dim by reason of oni (affliction); Hashem, I have called daily upon Thee, I have stretched up my hands unto Thee.
88:10  Wilt Thou show wonders to the mesim? Shall the lifeless arise and praise Thee? Selah.
88:11  Shall Thy chesed be declared in the kever? Or Thy emunah in Avaddon?
88:12  Shall Thy wonders be known in the choshech? And Thy tzedakah in the Eretz Neshiyyah (land of forgetfulness, oblivion)?
88:13  But unto Thee have I cried, Hashem; and in the boker shall my tefillah come before Thee.
88:14  Hashem, why castest Thou off my nefesh? Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?
88:15  I am afflicted and govei’a (one being close to death) from my youth up; while I suffer Thy terrors I am distraught.
88:16  Thy charon (fierce wrath) goeth over me; Thy terrors have flayed me.
88:17  They came round about me daily like mayim; they close in, engulfing me.
88:18  Ohev (lover) and re’a (companion) hast Thou estranged from me, and mine acquaintances are in darkness. [T.N. Ps 89 is a messianic Ps.]