ACV - Psalms - 88

88:1  O Jehovah, 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 to my cry.

88:3  For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

88:4  I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,

88:5  cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand.

88:6  Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

88:7  Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

88:8  Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

88:9  My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah, I have spread forth my hands to thee.

88:10  Will thou show wonders to the dead? Shall those who are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah.

88:11  Shall thy loving kindness 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 to thee, O Jehovah, I have cried, and in the morning my prayer shall come before thee.

88:14  Jehovah, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?

88:15  I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.

88:16  Thy fierce wrath has gone over me. Thy terrors have cut me off.

88:17  They came round about me like water all the day long. They encompassed me around together.

88:18  Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.