Bible, King James Version
Psalms
Pss.88
[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.
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