88:1 Lord Jehovah, God of my salvation, in the daytime I have cried and before you in the nighttime.
88:2 My prayer will enter before you and bend your ear to my prayer!
88:3 Because my soul has been filled with evils and my life has arrived at Sheol!
88:4 I am counted with those who descend to the pit and I have been like a man who has no helper!
88:5 A free man among the dead, like the slain sleeping in the graves, those whom you remember no more and they were destroyed by your hands!
88:6 You have laid me into the deepest pit, into darkness and the shadows of death!
88:7 And your wrath rests upon me and you have brought against me all of your storms!
88:8 You have removed my acquaintances from me and you have made me unclean to them; I am prohibited that I may not come out.
88:9 My eyes have melted from affliction and I called you, Lord Jehovah, every day, and have stretched forth my hands to you!
88:10 Behold, you work wonders to the dead and mighty ones will stand and confess you!
88:11 And they will tell your kindness which is in the tombs and your faithfulness in destruction!
88:12 Your wonders will be known in darkness and your righteousness in the land that was forgotten!
88:13 And I have cried to you, Lord Jehovah, and at dawn my prayer will come before your presence!
88:14 Do not forget my soul, Lord Jehovah, and do not turn your face from me!
88:15 I am afflicted and weary from my youth; I was exalted and I have been humbled and confounded.
88:16 Your wrath passed over me and your tumult silenced me.
88:17 They have surrounded me all day like waters and they have stood up against me together!
88:18 You have removed my friends and my neighbors from me and you have caused my acquaintances to depart from me.
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