88:1 A song. A psalm of the sons of Korach. For the leader. Set to “Sickness that Causes Suffering.” A maskil of Heiman the Ezrachi.
88:2 Adonai, God of my salvation, when I cry out to you in the night,
88:3 let my prayer come before you, turn your ear to my cry for help!
88:4 For I am oversupplied with troubles, which have brought me to the brink of Sh’ol.
88:5 I am counted among those going down to the pit, like a man who is beyond help,
88:6 left by myself among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave — you no longer remember them; they are cut off from your care.
88:7 You plunged me into the bottom of the pit, into dark places, into the depths.
88:8 Your wrath lies heavily on me; your waves crashing over me keep me down. (Selah)
88:9 You separated me from my close friends, made me repulsive to them; I am caged in, with no escape;
88:10 my eyes grow dim from suffering. I call on you, Adonai, every day; I spread out my hands to you.
88:11 Will you perform wonders for the dead? Can the ghosts of the dead rise up and praise you? (Selah)
88:12 Will your grace be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
88:13 Will your wonders be known in the dark, or your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
88:14 But I cry out to you, Adonai; my prayer comes before you in the morning.
88:15 So why, Adonai, do you reject me? Why do you hide your face from me?
88:16 Since my youth I have been miserable, close to death; I am numb from bearing these terrors of yours.
88:17 Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me, your terrors have shriveled me up.
88:18 They surge around me all day like a flood, from all sides they close in on me.
88:19 You have made friends and companions shun me; the people I know are hidden from me.
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