Psalm 88:1-9

Contemporary English Version

³ I am deeply troubled
    and close to death;
⁴ I am as good as dead
    and completely helpless.
⁵ I am no better off
    than those in the grave,
those you have forgotten
    and no longer help.

⁶ You have put me in the deepest
    and darkest grave;
⁷ your anger rolls over me
    like ocean waves.
⁸ You have made my friends turn
    in horror from me.
I am a prisoner
    who cannot escape,
⁹ and I am almost blind
    because of my sorrow.

Each day I lift my hands
    in prayer to you, Lord.