Psalms 88:1: O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Psalms 88:2: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; Psalms 88:3: For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. Psalms 88:4: I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: Psalms 88:5: 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. Psalms 88:6: Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Psalms 88:7: Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. Psalms 88:8: 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. Psalms 88:9: Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Psalms 88:10: Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. Psalms 88:11: Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? Psalms 88:12: Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? Psalms 88:13: But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. Psalms 88:14: LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? Psalms 88:15: I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Psalms 88:16: Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. Psalms 88:17: They came round about me daily like water; they compa**ed me about together. Psalms 88:18: Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.