Psalms 88

¹LORD , the God of my salvation,

I have cried day and night before you .

²Let my prayer enter into your presence .

Turn your ear to my cry .

³For my soul is full of troubles.

My life draws near to Sheol.

⁴I am counted amongst those who go down into the pit .

I am like a man who has no help,

⁵set apart amongst the dead,

like the slain who lie in the grave,

whom you remember no more .

They are cut off from your hand.

⁶You have laid me in the lowest pit,

in the darkest depths.

⁷Your wrath lies heavily on me .

You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

⁸You have taken my friends from me .

You have made me an abomination to them .

I am confined, and I can’t escape.

⁹My eyes are dim from grief.

I have called on you daily, LORD .

I have spread out my hands to you .

¹⁰Do you show wonders to the dead?

Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you ? Selah.

¹¹Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?

Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

¹²Are your wonders made known in the dark?

Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³But to you , LORD , I have cried.

In the morning, my prayer comes before you .

¹⁴LORD , why do you reject my soul?

Why do you hide your face from me ?

¹⁵I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up .

While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

¹⁶Your fierce wrath has gone over me.

Your terrors have cut me off .

¹⁷They came around me like water all day long .

They completely engulfed me .

¹⁸You have put lover and friend far from me ,

and my friends into darkness.