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| Psalms 88:1 | Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. | O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: | <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night: | Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you. |
| Psalms 88:2 | The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation. | Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; | Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry: | Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry. |
| Psalms 88:3 | For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them. | For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. | For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld. | For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. |
| Psalms 88:4 | I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: | I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: | I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: | I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, |
| Psalms 88:5 | Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation. | 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. | My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. | Set apart among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. |
| Psalms 88:6 | The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints. | Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. | You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places. | You have laid me in the lowest pit, In the darkest depths. |
| Psalms 88:7 | For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God? | Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. | The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.) | Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. |
| Psalms 88:8 | God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him. | 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. | You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out. | You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape. |
| Psalms 88:9 | O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee. | Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. | My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you. | My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you. |
| Psalms 88:10 | Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof. | Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. | Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) | Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah. |
| Psalms 88:11 | Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies. | Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? | Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction? | Is your lovingkindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? |
| Psalms 88:12 | Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: | Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? | May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead? | Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? |
| Psalms 88:13 | the north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: | But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. | But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you. | But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you. |
| Psalms 88:14 | thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted: | LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? | Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me? | Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me? |
| Psalms 88:15 | justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face: | I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. | I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. | I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. |
| Psalms 88:16 | blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: | Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. | The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. | Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off. |
| Psalms 88:17 | and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted. | They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. | They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me. | They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me. |
| Psalms 88:18 | For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted. | Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. | You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me. | You have put lover and friend far from me, And my friends into darkness. Psalm 89 A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. |
| Psalms 88:19 | For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel. | | | |
| Psalms 88:20 | Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people. | | | |
| Psalms 88:21 | I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him. | | | |
| Psalms 88:22 | For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him. | | | |
| Psalms 88:23 | The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him. | | | |
| Psalms 88:24 | And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight. | | | |
| Psalms 88:25 | And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. | | | |
| Psalms 88:26 | And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers. | | | |
| Psalms 88:27 | He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation. | | | |
| Psalms 88:28 | And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth. | | | |
| Psalms 88:29 | I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him. | | | |
| Psalms 88:30 | And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven. | | | |
| Psalms 88:31 | And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: | | | |
| Psalms 88:32 | If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments: | | | |
| Psalms 88:33 | I will visit their iniquities with a rod: and their sins with stripes. | | | |
| Psalms 88:34 | But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail. | | | |
| Psalms 88:35 | Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void. | | | |
| Psalms 88:36 | Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: | | | |
| Psalms 88:37 | his seed shall endure for ever. | | | |
| Psalms 88:38 | And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven. | | | |
| Psalms 88:39 | But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with thy anointed. | | | |
| Psalms 88:40 | Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth. | | | |
| Psalms 88:41 | Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear. | | | |
| Psalms 88:42 | All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours. | | | |
| Psalms 88:43 | Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. | | | |
| Psalms 88:44 | Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle. | | | |
| Psalms 88:45 | Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground. | | | |
| Psalms 88:46 | Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion. | | | |
| Psalms 88:47 | How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire? | | | |
| Psalms 88:48 | Remember what my substance is for hast thou made all the children of men in vain? | | | |
| Psalms 88:49 | Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell? | | | |
| Psalms 88:50 | Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth? | | | |
| Psalms 88:51 | Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations: | | | |
| Psalms 88:52 | Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed. | | | |
| Psalms 88:53 | Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it. | | | |
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