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Chapter 88
Psal LITV 88:1  A Song. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah, to the chief musician on Mahalath, to make humble. A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah God of my salvation, I have cried in the day, in the night before You.
Psal LITV 88:2  Let my prayer come before You; bow down Your ear to my cry.
Psal LITV 88:3  For my soul is full with evils, and my life touches Sheol.
Psal LITV 88:4  I am counted with those who go down to the Pit; I have been like a feeble man,
Psal LITV 88:5  free among the dead, as pierced ones lying in the grave, whom You remember no more; yea by Your hand they are cut off.
Psal LITV 88:6  You have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places; in the deeps.
Psal LITV 88:7  Your fury has lain hard upon me, and You afflict me with all Your waves. Selah.
Psal LITV 88:8  You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them; I am shut up, I will not go out.
Psal LITV 88:9  My eye mourns because of affliction; O Jehovah, I have called on You every day; I have spread out my hands to You.
Psal LITV 88:10  For will You do wonders to the dead? Or shall the departed spirits rise and thank You? Selah.
Psal LITV 88:11  Shall Your mercy be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness amidst ruin?
Psal LITV 88:12  Shall Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psal LITV 88:13  But to You I have cried, O Jehovah; and in the morning my prayer shall go before You.
Psal LITV 88:14  O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul; why do You hide Your face from me?
Psal LITV 88:15  I am afflicted and dying from childhood; I suffer Your terrors; I am distracted.
Psal LITV 88:16  Your fierce wrath goes over me; Your terrors have cut me off.
Psal LITV 88:17  They surrounded me like waters all the day long; they have come together around me.
Psal LITV 88:18  You have taken lover and friend far from me, he who knows me, into darkness.