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Psalms 88
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1[A Psalm] of instruction for Ætham the Israelite.
1O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2I will sing of thy mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare thy truth with my mouth to all generations.
2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy truth shall be established in the heavens.
3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware unto David my servant.
4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5I will establish thy seed for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Pause.
5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6The heavens shall declare thy wonders, O Lord; and thy truth in the assembly of the saints.
6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God?
7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
8God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him.
8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.
9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10Thou rulest the power of the sea; and thou calmest the tumult of its waves.
10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11Thou hast brought down the proud as one that is slain; and with the arm of thy power thou hast scattered thine enemies.
11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
12The heavens are thine, and the earth is thine: thou hast founded the world, and the fulness of it.
12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13Thou hast created the north and the west: Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
13But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
14Thine is the mighty arm: let thy hand be strengthened, let thy right hand be exalted.
14Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
15Justice and judgment are the establishment of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.
16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
17And in thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
18For thou art the boast of their strength; and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted,
18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.