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CHAP. LXXXVIII.
A prayer contayning a grieuous complaint.
2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine eare vnto my cry.
3 For my soule is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh vnto the graue.
4 I am counted with them that go downe into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength.
5 Free among the dead, like the slaine that lie in the graue, whom thou remembrest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.5
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit: in darkenesse, in the deepes.
7 Thy wrath lieth hard vpon me: and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waues. Selah.
10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shal the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11 Shall thy louing kindnesse be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnesse in destruction?
12 Shall thy wonders be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnesse in the land of forgetfulnesse?
13 But vnto thee haue I cried, O Lord, and in the morning shall my prayer preuent thee.
14 Lord, why castest thou off my soule? why hidest thou thy face from me?
15 I am afflicted and ready to die, from my youth vp: while I suffer thy terrours, I am distracted.
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth ouer me: thy terrours haue cut me off.
17 They came round about mee daily like water: they compassed mee about together.17
18 Louer and friend hast thou put farre from me: and mine acquaintance into darkenesse.
Psalms Chapter 88 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
5 Or, by thy hand.
17 Or, all the day.
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