19:088:001 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before
thee:
19:088:002 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
19:088:003 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto
the grave.
19:088:004 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a
man that hath no strength:
19:088:005 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.
19:088:006 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the
deeps.
19:088:007 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with
all thy waves. Selah.
19:088:008 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.
19:088:009 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
19:088:010 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and
praise thee? Selah.
19:088:011 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy
faithfulness in destruction?
19:088:012 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness
in the land of forgetfulness?
19:088:013 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall
my prayer prevent thee.
19:088:014 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face
from me?
19:088:015 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I
suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
19:088:016 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
19:088:017 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me
about together.
19:088:018 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine
acquaintance into darkness.