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