­PSA 88:1  O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

 

­PSA 88:2  Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

 

­PSA 88:3  For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the

 grave.

 

­PSA 88:4  I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that

 hath no strength:

 

­PSA 88:5  Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou

 rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

 

­PSA 88:6  Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

 

­PSA 88:7  Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy

 waves. Selah.

 

­PSA 88:8  Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me

 an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

 

­PSA 88:9  Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily

 upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

 

­PSA 88:10  Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise

 thee? Selah.

 

­PSA 88:11  Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy

 faithfulness in destruction?

 

­PSA 88:12  Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the

 land of forgetfulness?

 

­PSA 88:13  But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my

 prayer prevent thee.

 

­PSA 88:14  LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from

 me?

 

­PSA 88:15  I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy

 terrors I am distracted.

 

­PSA 88:16  Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

 

­PSA 88:17  They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about

 together.

 

­PSA 88:18  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance

 into darkness.