The Book of Psalms 88

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1 O LORD God of my salvation I have cried day and night before thee ⚑

2 Let my prayer come before thee incline thine ear unto my cry ⚑

3 For my soul is full of troubles and my life draweth nigh unto the grave ⚑

4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit I am as a man that hath no strength ⚑

5 Free among the dead like the slain that lie in the grave whom thou rememberest no more and they are cut off from thy hand ⚑

6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in darkness in the deeps ⚑

7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves Selah ⚑

8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me thou hast made me an abomination unto them I am shut up and I cannot come forth ⚑

9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction LORD I have called daily upon thee I have stretched out my hands unto thee ⚑

10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead shall the dead arise and praise thee Selah ⚑

11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave or thy faithfulness in destruction ⚑

12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness ⚑

13 But unto thee have I cried O LORD and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee ⚑

14 LORD why castest thou off my soul why hidest thou thy face from me ⚑

15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted ⚑

16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me thy terrors have cut me off ⚑

17 They came round about me daily like water they compassed me about together ⚑

18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darkness ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain