Pslam 88

Psalm 88

Amplified Bible (AMP)

Psalm 88

A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician; set to chant mournfully. A didactic or reflective poem of Heman the Ezrahite.

 ¹O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried to You for help by day; at night I am in Your presence.^{(A)    2}Let my prayer come before You and really enter into Your presence; incline Your ear to my cry!
    ³For I am full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol (the place of the dead).
    ⁴I am counted among those who go down into the pit (the grave); I am like a man who has no help or strength [a mere shadow],
    ⁵Cast away among the dead, like the slain that lie in a [nameless] grave, whom You [seriously] remember no more, and they are cut off from Your hand.
    ⁶You have laid me in the depths of the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
    ⁷Your wrath lies hard upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!^{(B)
    8}You have put my [familiar] friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
    ⁹My eye grows dim because of sorrow and affliction. Lord, I have called daily on You; I have spread forth my hands to You.
    ¹⁰Will You show wonders to the dead? Shall the departed arise and praise You? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
    ¹¹Shall Your steadfast love be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (Sheol, as a place of ruin and destruction)?
    ¹²Shall Your wonders be known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the place of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?
    ¹³But to You I cry, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer come to meet You.
    ¹⁴Lord, why do You cast me off? Why do You hide Your face from me?^{(C)
    15}I was afflicted and close to death from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors I am distracted [I faint].
    ¹⁶Your fierce wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
    ¹⁷They surround me like a flood all day long; together they have closed in upon me.
    ¹⁸Lover and friend have You put far from me; my familiar friends are darkness and the grave.
   

Cross references:

1. Psalm 88:1 : Luke 18:7
2. Psalm 88:7 : Ps 42:7
3. Psalm 88:14 : Matt 27:46