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A song to be sung to the tune “The Suffering of Affliction.” A psalm<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> of Heman the Ezrahite.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>O LORD, God of my salvation,</p><p class="line2">I cry out to you by day.</p><p class="line2">I come to you at night.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now hear my prayer;</p><p class="line2">listen to my cry.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For my life is full of troubles,</p><p class="line2">and death<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> draws near.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I am as good as dead,</p><p class="line2">like a strong man with no strength left.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They have left me among the dead,</p><p class="line2">and I lie like a corpse in a grave.</p><p class="line1">I am forgotten,</p><p class="line2">cut off from your care.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have thrown me into the lowest pit,</p><p class="line2">into the darkest depths.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Your anger weighs me down;</p><p class="line2">with wave after wave you have engulfed me.</p><p class="lit">Interlude</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You have driven my friends away</p><p class="line2">by making me repulsive to them.</p><p class="line1">I am in a trap with no way of escape.</p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My eyes are blinded by my tears.</p><p class="line1">Each day I beg for your help, O LORD;</p><p class="line2">I lift my hands to you for mercy.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Are your wonderful deeds of any use to the dead?</p><p class="line2">Do the dead rise up and praise you?</p><p class="lit">Interlude</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Can those in the grave declare your unfailing love?</p><p class="line2">Can they proclaim your faithfulness in the place of destruction?<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Can the darkness speak of your wonderful deeds?</p><p class="line2">Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>O LORD, I cry out to you.</p><p class="line2">I will keep on pleading day by day.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>O LORD, why do you reject me?</p><p class="line2">Why do you turn your face from me?</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I have been sick and close to death since my youth.</p><p class="line2">I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me.</p><p class="line2">Your terrors have paralyzed me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They swirl around me like floodwaters all day long.</p><p class="line2">They have engulfed me completely.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You have taken away my companions and loved ones.</p><p class="line2">Darkness is my closest friend.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">88:TITLE </span><span class="ft"> Hebrew </span><span class="it">maskil.</span><span class="ft"> This may be a literary or musical term.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">88:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Sheol.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">88:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">in Abaddon?</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div 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