Psalms 88 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 <V 87:1>A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Unto the end. For Mahalath, to answer the understanding of Heman the Ezrahite. <V 87:2>O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence. O LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you. A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. LORD, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you.
2 <V 87:3>Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition. Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry! May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry.
3 <V 87:4>For my soul has been filled with evils, and my life has drawn near to Hell. For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death.
4 <V 87:5>I am considered to be among those who will descend into the pit. I have become like a man without assistance, I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength.
5 <V 87:6>idle among the dead. I am like the wounded sleeping in sepulchers, whom you no longer remember, and who have been repelled by your hand. like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.
6 <V 87:7>They have lain me in the lower pit: in dark places and in the shadow of death. You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep. You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
7 <V 87:8>Your fury has been confirmed over me. And you have brought all your waves upon me. Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.
8 <V 87:9>You have sent my acquaintances far from me. They have set me as an abomination to themselves. I was handed over, yet I did not depart. You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape;
9 <V 87:10>My eyes languished before destitution. All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. I stretched out my hands to you. my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you. my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you.
10 <V 87:11>Will you perform wonders for the dead? Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you? Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you?
11 <V 87:12>Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, or your truth from within perdition? Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon? Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction?
12 <V 87:13>Will your wonders be known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion? Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?
13 <V 87:14>And I have cried out to you, O Lord, and in early morning, my prayer will come before you. But I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you. But I cry to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14 <V 87:15>Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me? O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me? Why, LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me?
15 <V 87:16>I am poor, and I have been amid hardships from my youth. And, though I have been exalted, I am humbled and disturbed. Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.
16 <V 87:17>Your wrath has crossed into me, and your terrors have disturbed me. Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me. Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.
17 <V 87:18>They have surrounded me like water, all day long. They have surrounded me, all at once. They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together. All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me.
18 <V 87:19>Friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances, you have sent far away from me, away from misery. You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness. You have taken from me friend and neighbor— darkness is my closest friend.
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