LEB - Psalms - 88

88:1  For the music director; according to Mahalath Leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O Yahweh, God of my salvation, I cry out by day and through the night before you.

88:2  Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

88:3  For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol.

88:4  I am reckoned with those descending to the pit. I am like a man without strength,

88:5  set free among the dead, like the slain lying in the grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand.

88:6  You have set me in the pit below, in dark places, in the depths.

88:7  Your wrath presses upon me, and you afflict me with all your waves. Selah

88:8  You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestable to them. I am confined and cannot go out.

88:9  My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

88:10  Do you work wonders for the dead? Or do the departed spirits rise up to praise you? Selah

88:11  Is your loyal love told in the grave, or your faithfulness in the underworld?

88:12  Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

88:13  But as for me, I cry for help to you, O Yahweh, and in the morning my prayer comes before you.

88:14  Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? Why do you hide your face from me?

88:15  I am afflicted and perishing from my youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught.

88:16  Your burning anger has passed over me; your sudden fears have destroyed me.

88:17  They surround me like water all the day; they circle about me altogether.

88:18  You have removed loved one and friend far from me, my acquaintances far from my darkness.