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Psalm 88 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:1 - <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:2 - Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:3 - For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 - I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:5 - My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:6 - You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:7 - The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:8 - You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 - My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:10 - Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:11 - Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:12 - May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:13 - But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:14 - Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:15 - I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:16 - The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:17 - They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:18 - You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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