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Psalms 87

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1(88) A song of a Psalm for the sons of Core for the end, upon Maeleth for responsive [strains], of instruction for Aeman the Israelite. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before you.
1His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2Let my prayer come in before you; incline your ear to my supplication, O Lord .
2The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn near to Hades.
3Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
4I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;
4I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
5free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom you remember no more; and they are rejected from your hand.
5And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
6They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark [places], and in the shadow of death.
6The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
7Your wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and you have brought upon me all your billows. Pause.
7As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.