Psalm 88

Revised Geneva Translation

88 O LORD, God of My Salvation, I cry day and night before You.

² Let my prayer enter into Your presence. Incline Your ear to my cry.

³ For my soul is filled with evils and my life draws near to the grave.

⁴ I am counted among those who go down to the pit; and am as a man without strength,

⁵ Free among the dead, like the fatally wounded laying in the grave when You remember no more; and they are cut off from Your hand.

⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deep.

⁷ Your indignation lies upon me; and You have troubled me with all Your waves. Selah.

⁸ You have put away my acquaintances far from me and made me to be abhorred by them. I am shut up and cannot get out.

⁹ My eye is sorrowful through my affliction. LORD, I call daily upon You. I stretch out my hands to You.

¹⁰ Will You show a miracle to the dead? Or shall the dead rise and praise You? Selah.

¹¹ Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or Your faithfulness in destruction?

¹² Shall Your wondrous works be known in the dark; and Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

¹³ But to You I have cried, O LORD, and my prayer shall come before You early.

¹⁴ LORD, why do You reject my soul and hide Your face from me?

¹⁵ I am afflicted and at the point of death. From youth I have doubted, suffering Your terrors.

¹⁶ Your indignations go over me and Your fear has cut me off.

¹⁷ They came all around me daily like water and encircled me altogether.

¹⁸ You have put away my lovers and friends from me. My acquaintances hid themselves. A Psalm to give instruction, of Ethan the Ezrahite