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Psalm 88 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Incline Your Ear to My Cry

Psa 88:1

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A [fn]Maskil of Heman [fn]the Ezrahite.

O Yahweh, the God of my salvation,

I have cried out by day and throughout the night before You.

Psa 88:2

Let my prayer come before You;

Incline Your ear to my cry of lamentation!

Psa 88:3

For my soul has been saturated with calamities,

And my life has reached Sheol.

Psa 88:4

I am counted among those who go down to the pit;

I am like a man without strength,

Psa 88:5

Released among the dead,

Like the slain who lie in the grave,

Whom You remember no more,

And they are cut off from Your hand.

Psa 88:6

You have put me in the pit far below,

In dark places, in the depths.

Psa 88:7

Your wrath lies upon me,

And You afflict me with all Your breaking waves. [fn]Selah.

Psa 88:8

You have removed my acquaintances far from me;

You have set me as [fn]an abomination to them;

I am shut up and cannot go out.

Psa 88:9

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;

I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh;

I have spread out my [fn]hands to You.

Psa 88:10

Will You do wonders for the dead?

Will the [fn]departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.

Psa 88:11

Will Your lovingkindness be recounted in the grave,

Your faithfulness in [fn]Abaddon?

Psa 88:12

Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?

And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Psa 88:13

But as for me, O Yahweh, I have cried out to You for help,

And in the morning my prayer comes before You.

Psa 88:14

O Yahweh, why do You reject my soul?

Why do You hide Your face from me?

Psa 88:15

I have been afflicted and about to breathe my last from my youth on;

I bear Your terrors; I am [fn]overcome.

Psa 88:16

Your burning anger has passed over me;

Your horrors have [fn]destroyed me.

Psa 88:17

They have surrounded me like water all day long;

They have encompassed me altogether.

Psa 88:18

You have removed lover and friend far from me;

My acquaintances are in darkness.

LSB Footnotes
Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful Psalm
Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude
Lit abominations
Lit palms
Or ghosts, shades
Lit the realm of destruction
Or embarrassed
Or silenced
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