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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 Catholic Public Domain Version</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="../">CPDV</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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/88-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">I Cry Out before You<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><V 87:1>A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Unto the end. For Mahalath, to answer the understanding of Heman the Ezrahite. <V 87:2>O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><V 87:3>Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><V 87:4>For my soul has been filled with evils, and my life has drawn near to Hell.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><V 87:5>I am considered to be among those who will descend into the pit. I have become like a man without assistance,<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><V 87:6>idle among the dead. I am like the wounded sleeping in sepulchers, whom you no longer remember, and who have been repelled by your hand.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><V 87:7>They have lain me in the lower pit: in dark places 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><V 87:8>Your fury has been confirmed over me. And you have brought all your waves upon me.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><V 87:9>You have sent my acquaintances far from me. They have set me as an abomination to themselves. I was handed over, yet I did not depart.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><V 87:10>My eyes languished before destitution. All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. I stretched out my hands to you.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><V 87:11>Will you perform wonders for the dead? Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><V 87:12>Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, or your truth from within perdition?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><V 87:13>Will your wonders be known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><V 87:14>And I have cried out to you, O Lord, and in early morning, my prayer will come before you.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><V 87:15>Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><V 87:16>I am poor, and I have been amid hardships from my youth. And, though I have been exalted, I am humbled and disturbed.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><V 87:17>Your wrath has crossed into me, and your terrors have disturbed me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><V 87:18>They have surrounded me like water, all day long. They have surrounded me, all at once.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/88-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><V 87:19>Friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances, you have sent far away from me, away from misery.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<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>