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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 88 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/88.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/88-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSB</a> > Psalm 88</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/87.htm" title="Psalm 87">◄</a> Psalm 88 <a href="../psalms/89.htm" title="Psalm 89">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/psalms/88.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Incline Your Ear to My Cry</p><p><SS><i>A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Maskil of Heman <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the Ezrahite.</i></SS><CP><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>O Yahweh, the God of my salvation, <p class="indent2">I have cried out by day and throughout the night before You. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Let my prayer come before You; <p class="indent2">Incline Your ear to my cry of lamentation! <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For my soul has been saturated with calamities, <p class="indent2">And my life has reached Sheol. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I am counted among those who go down to the pit; <p class="indent2">I am like a man without strength, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Released among the dead, <p class="indent2">Like the slain who lie in the grave, <p class="indent2">Whom You remember no more, <p class="indent2">And they are cut off from Your hand. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have put me in the pit far below, <p class="indent2">In dark places, in the depths. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Your wrath lies upon me, <p class="indent2">And You afflict me with all Your breaking waves. <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Selah. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You have removed my acquaintances far from me; <p class="indent2">You have set me as <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>an abomination to them; <p class="indent2">I am shut up and cannot go out. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My eye has wasted away because of affliction; <p class="indent2">I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh; <p class="indent2">I have spread out my <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>hands to You. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Will You do wonders for the dead? <p class="indent2">Will the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>departed spirits rise <i>and</i> praise You? Selah. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Will Your lovingkindness be recounted in the grave, <p class="indent2">Your faithfulness in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Abaddon? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? <p class="indent2">And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But as for me, O Yahweh, I have cried out to You for help, <p class="indent2">And in the morning my prayer comes before You. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>O Yahweh, why do You reject my soul? <p class="indent2"><i>Why</i> do You hide Your face from me? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I <i>have been</i> afflicted and about to breathe my last from <i>my</i> youth on; <p class="indent2">I bear Your terrors; I am <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>overcome. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Your burning anger has passed over me; <p class="indent2">Your horrors have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>destroyed me. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They have surrounded me like water all day long; <p class="indent2">They have encompassed me altogether. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You have removed lover and friend far from me; <p class="indent2">My acquaintances are <i>in</i> darkness.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">Title</span> Possibly <i>Contemplative</i>, <i>Didactic</i>, <i>Skillful Psalm</i><br><span class="fnverse">Title</span> 1 Kin 4:31; 1 Chr 2:6; Ps 89: title<br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <i>Selah</i> may mean <i>Pause</i>, <i>Crescendo</i>, <i>Musical Interlude</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>abominations</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>palms</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>ghosts</i>, <i>shades</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit the realm of <i>destruction</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>embarrassed</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>silenced</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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