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A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to <span class="emphasis">mahalath leannoth.</span> <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Title: Possibly a tune, ''The Suffering of Affliction''">b</a></sup></span> A <span class="emphasis">maskil</span> <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Title: Probably a literary or musical term">c</a></sup></span> of Heman the Ezrahite.</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="name">Lord</span>, you are the God who saves me;</p><p class="line2">day and night I cry out to you.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>May my prayer come before you;</p><p class="line2">turn your ear to my cry.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I am overwhelmed with troubles</p><p class="line2">and my life draws near to death.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I am counted among those who go down to the pit;</p><p class="line2">I am like one without strength.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I am set apart with the dead,</p><p class="line2">like the slain who lie in the grave,</p><p class="line1">whom you remember no more,</p><p class="line2">who are cut off from your care.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have put me in the lowest pit,</p><p class="line2">in 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 wrath lies heavily on me;</p><p class="line2">you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 10.">d</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You have taken from me my closest friends</p><p class="line2">and have made me repulsive to them.</p><p class="line1">I am confined and cannot 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 dim with grief.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">I call to you, <span class="name">Lord</span>, every day;</p><p class="line2">I spread out my hands to you.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Do you show your wonders to the dead?</p><p class="line2">Do their spirits rise up and praise you?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Is your love declared in the grave,</p><p class="line2">your faithfulness in Destruction <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Abaddon">e</a></sup></span> ?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,</p><p class="line2">or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But I cry to you for help, <span class="name">Lord</span>;</p><p class="line2">in the morning my prayer comes before you.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Why, <span class="name">Lord</span>, do you reject me</p><p class="line2">and hide your face from me?</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>From my youth I have suffered and been close to death;</p><p class="line2">I have borne your terrors and am in despair.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Your wrath has swept over me;</p><p class="line2">your terrors have destroyed me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All day long they surround me like a flood;</p><p class="line2">they have completely engulfed me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/88-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You have taken from me friend and neighbor—</p><p class="line2">darkness is my closest friend.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">In Hebrew texts 88:1-18 is numbered 88:2-19.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Title: Possibly a tune, “The Suffering of Affliction”</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew has <i>Selah</i> (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 10.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>Abaddon</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 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