psa 88:1

  O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

psa 88:2

  Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

psa 88:3

  For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

psa 88:4

  I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

psa 88:5

  Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

psa 88:6

  Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

psa 88:7

  Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

psa 88:8

  Thou 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.

psa 88:9

  Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

psa 88:10

  Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

psa 88:11

  Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

psa 88:12

  Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

psa 88:13

  But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

psa 88:14

  LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

psa 88:15

  I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

psa 88:16

  Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

psa 88:17

  They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

psa 88:18

  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.