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| The Book of Psalms 87 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:1 | A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:2 | O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:3 | Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:4 | For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:5 | I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:6 | free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:7 | They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:8 | Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:9 | Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:10 | my eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:11 | Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee? | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:12 | Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction? | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:13 | Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness? | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:14 | But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:15 | Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me? | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:16 | I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:17 | Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:18 | They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 87:19 | Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery. | |||||||||||||||
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