Psalm 88 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ O יהוה, Elohim of my deliverance, By day I have cried out, In the night also before You,

² Let my prayer come before You, Incline Your ear to my cry.

³ For my being is filled with evils, And my life draws near to She’ol.

⁴ I have been reckoned among those Who go down to the pit; I have become like a man Who has no strength,

⁵ Released among the dead, Like slain ones lying in the burial-site, Whom You have remembered no more, And who have been cut off from Your hand.

⁶ You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths.

⁷ Your wrath has rested heavily upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your breakers. Selah.

⁸ You have put away my friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in and do not go out;

⁹ My eye grows dim because of affliction. יהוה, I have called upon You, all day long; I have stretched out my hands to You.

¹⁰ Would You work wonders for the dead? Would the dead rise to praise You? Selah.

¹¹ Is Your loving-commitment declared in the burial-site? Your trustworthiness in the place of destruction?

¹² Are Your wonders known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of no remembrance?

¹³ But I, unto You I have cried, O יהוה, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.

¹⁴ יהוה, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

¹⁵ I am afflicted and dying from childhood; I have borne frightening matters from You; I am in despair.

¹⁶ Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your onslaughts have cut me off.

¹⁷ They surrounded me like water all day long; They close in upon me altogether.

¹⁸ You have put loved one and companion far from me, Darkness is my close friend!