Psalm 88:1-9

Revised Geneva Translation

88 O LORD, God of My Salvation, I cry day and night before You.

² Let my prayer enter into Your presence. Incline Your ear to my cry.

³ For my soul is filled with evils and my life draws near to the grave.

⁴ I am counted among those who go down to the pit; and am as a man without strength,

⁵ Free among the dead, like the fatally wounded laying in the grave when You remember no more; and they are cut off from Your hand.

⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deep.

⁷ Your indignation lies upon me; and You have troubled me with all Your waves. Selah.

⁸ You have put away my acquaintances far from me and made me to be abhorred by them. I am shut up and cannot get out.

⁹ My eye is sorrowful through my affliction. LORD, I call daily upon You. I stretch out my hands to You.