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Psalm 88 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:2)</font> Let my prayer come in before thee; incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:3)</font> For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:4)</font> I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:5)</font> free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom thou rememberest no more; and they are rejected from thy hand.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:6)</font> They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark <i>places</i>, and in the shadow of death.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:7)</font> Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:8)</font> 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.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:9)</font> Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to thee.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:10)</font> Wilt thou work wonders for the dead? or shall physicians raise <i>them</i> up, that they shall praise thee?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:11)</font> Shall any one declare thy mercy in the tomb? and thy truth in destruction?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:12)</font> Shall thy wonders be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in a forgotten land?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:13)</font> But I cried to thee, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:14)</font> Wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my prayer, <i>and</i> turn thy face away from me?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:15)</font> I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:16)</font> Thy wrath has passed over me; and thy terrors have greatly disquieted me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:17)</font> They compassed me like water; all the day they beset me together.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(87:18)</font> Thou hast put far from me <i>every</i> friend, and mine acquaintances because of <i>my</i> wretchedness.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/87.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 87"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 87" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/89.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 89"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 89" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>