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Home Book of Tehilim Psalm 88

Psalm 88

תהילים 88

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A song. A psalm of the Korahites. For the leader; mau1e25alath leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
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O ETERNAL One, God of my deliverance, when I cry out in the night before You,
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let my prayer reach You; incline Your ear to my cry.
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For I am sated with misfortune; I am at the brink of Sheol.
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I am numbered with those who go down to the Pit; I am like someone helpless
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abandoned among the dead, like bodies lying in the grave of whom You are mindful no more, and who are cut off from Your care.
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You have put me at the bottom of the Pit, in the darkest places, in the depths.
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Your fury lies heavy upon me; You afflict me with all Your breakers. Selah.
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You make my companions shun me; You make me abhorrent to them; I am shut in and do not go out.
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My eyes pine away from affliction; I call to You, O ETERNAL One, each day; I stretch out my hands to You.
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Do You work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise to praise You? Selah.
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Is Your faithful care recounted in the grave, Your constancy in the place of perdition?
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Are Your wonders made known in the netherworld, Your beneficent deeds in the land of oblivion?
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As for me, I cry out to You, O ETERNAL One; each morning my prayer greets You.
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Why, O ETERNAL One, do You reject me, do You hide Your face from me?
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From my youth I have been afflicted and near death; I suffer Your terrors wherever I turn.
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Your fury overwhelms me; Your terrors destroy me.
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They swirl about me like water all day long; they encircle me on every side.
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You have put friend and neighbor far from me and my companions out of my sight.