Psalms 88:4-18 ▼

4 I am counted with those going down into the Pit; I am like a man with no strength,

5 among the dead set free, like the slain lying down in the grave, whom You do not remember anymore, even they who are cut off from Your hand.

6 You have set me in the lowest Pit, in darkness in the depths.

7 Upon me Your wrath has grabbed hold, and with all Your waves You have afflicted. Selah

8 You have put my acquaintances far from me; You have made me loathsome to them; I am shut in, and I cannot go forth.

9 My eye languishes from this affliction; I have called to You, O YHWH, all the day; I have stretched out to You my hands.

10 Will You work wonders for the dead? And if departed spirits rise up, do they thank You? Selah

11 Can Your loving devotion be recounted in the Grave, or Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

12 Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 And I, O YHWH, cry for help to You, and in the morning my prayer comes before You.

14 Why, O YHWH, do You reject my soul? You hide Your face from me.

15 I am afflicted and dying from my youth; I bear Your terrors; I am in despair.

16 Your wrath has passed over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

17 They came around me like the waters all the day, they surrounded me altogether.

18 You have put far my beloved and friend; my close acquaintance is darkness.