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Psalm 88 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Incline Your Ear to My Cry

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A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A [fn]Maskil of Heman [fn]the Ezrahite.

O Yahweh, the God of my salvation,

I have cried out by day and throughout the night before You.

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Let my prayer come before You;

Incline Your ear to my cry of lamentation!

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For my soul has been saturated with calamities,

And my life has reached Sheol.

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I am counted among those who go down to the pit;

I am like a man without strength,

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Released among the dead,

Like the slain who lie in the grave,

Whom You remember no more,

And they are cut off from Your hand.

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You have put me in the pit far below,

In dark places, in the depths.

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Your wrath lies upon me,

And You afflict me with all Your breaking waves. [fn]Selah.

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You have removed my acquaintances far from me;

You have set me as [fn]an abomination to them;

I am shut up and cannot go out.

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My eye has wasted away because of affliction;

I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh;

I have spread out my [fn]hands to You.

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Will You do wonders for the dead?

Will the [fn]departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.

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Will Your lovingkindness be recounted in the grave,

Your faithfulness in [fn]Abaddon?

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Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?

And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

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But as for me, O Yahweh, I have cried out to You for help,

And in the morning my prayer comes before You.

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O Yahweh, why do You reject my soul?

Why do You hide Your face from me?

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I have been afflicted and about to breathe my last from my youth on;

I bear Your terrors; I am [fn]overcome.

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Your burning anger has passed over me;

Your horrors have [fn]destroyed me.

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They have surrounded me like water all day long;

They have encompassed me altogether.

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You have removed lover and friend far from me;

My acquaintances are in darkness.

See the LSB Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
LSB Footnotes
Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful Psalm
1 Kin 4:31; 1 Chr 2:6; Ps 89: title
Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude
Lit abominations
Lit palms
Or ghosts, shades
Lit the realm of destruction
Or embarrassed
Or silenced
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