Psalm 88 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

² my eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

³ 0 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?

⁴ 1 Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction?

⁵ 2 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?

⁶ 3 But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.

⁷ 4 Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

⁸ 5 I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.

⁹ 6 Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.

¹⁰ 7 They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

¹¹ 8 Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.

¹² Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

¹³ For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

¹⁴ I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:

¹⁵ Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.

¹⁶ The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.

¹⁷ For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?

¹⁸ God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.