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Psalm 88 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:1 - (LXX 87:1) A song of a Psalm for the sons of Core for the end, upon Maeleth for responsive strains, of [fn]instruction for Æman the Israelite. (87:2) O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:2 - (LXX 87:3) Let my prayer come in before thee; incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:3 - (LXX 87:4) For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 - (LXX 87:5) I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:5 - (LXX 87:6) free among the dead, as the slain ones [fn]cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom thou rememberest no more; and they are rejected from thy hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:6 - (LXX 87:7) They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, and in the shadow of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:7 - (LXX 87:8) Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:8 - (LXX 87:9) Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 - (LXX 87:10) Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:10 - (LXX 87:11) Wilt thou work wonders for the dead? or shall [fn]physicians raise them up, that they shall praise thee?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:11 - (LXX 87:12) Shall any one declare thy mercy in the tomb? and thy truth in destruction?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:12 - (LXX 87:13) Shall thy wonders be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in a forgotten land?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:13 - (LXX 87:14) But I cried to thee, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:14 - (LXX 87:15) Wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my [fn]prayer, and turn thy face away from me?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:15 - (LXX 87:16) I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into [fn]despair.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:16 - (LXX 87:17) Thy wrath has passed over me; and thy terrors have greatly disquieted me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:17 - (LXX 87:18) They compassed me like water; all the day they beset me together.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:18 - (LXX 87:19) Thou hast put far from me [fn]every friend, and mine acquaintances because of my wretchedness.
BES Footnotes
Gr. understanding.
Alex. om. ἐῤῥιμμένοι, cast out.
See Heb.
Heb. and Alex. soul.
See 2 Cor. 4:8.
Alex. friend and neighbour.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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