Psalm 88, side by side

¹A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.

¹O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

²May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.

²Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

³For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

³For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

⁴I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

⁴I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

⁵I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

⁵Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

⁶You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

⁶Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

⁷Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

⁷Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

⁸You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

⁸Thou 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.

⁹My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.

⁹Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

¹⁰Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah

¹⁰Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

¹¹Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

¹¹Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

¹²Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

¹²Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.

¹³But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

¹⁴Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

¹⁴LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

¹⁵From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

¹⁵I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

¹⁶Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

¹⁶Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

¹⁷All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.

¹⁷They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

¹⁸You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

¹⁸Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.