Psalm 88

¹ O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee * O let my prayer enter into thy presence, incline thine ear unto my calling.

² For my soul is full of trouble * and my life draweth nigh unto hell.

³ I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit * and I have been even as a man that hath no strength.

⁴ Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and lie in the grave * who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.

⁵ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit * in a place of darkness, and in the deep.

⁶ Thine indignation lieth hard upon me * and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms.

⁷ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me * and made me to be abhorred of them.

⁸ I am so fast in prison * that I cannot get forth.

⁹ My sight faileth for very trouble * Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands unto thee.

¹⁰ Dost thou shew wonders among the dead * or shall the dead rise up again, and praise thee?

¹¹ Shall thy loving-kindness be shewed in the grave * or thy faithfulness in destruction?

¹² Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark * and thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?

¹³ Unto thee have I cried, O Lord * and early shall my prayer come before thee.

¹⁴ Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul * and hidest thou thy face from me?

¹⁵ I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die * even from my youth up thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.

¹⁶ Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me * and the fear of thee hath undone me.

¹⁷ They came round about me daily like water * and compassed me together on every side.

¹⁸ My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me: and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.