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| The Book of Psalms. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
| Book III |
| LXXXVIII |
| A Petition to Be Saved from Death |
| A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. 1 Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. |
| [1] | O JEHOVAH, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee. |
| [2] | Let my prayer enter into thy presence; Incline thine ear unto my cry. |
| [3] | For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol. |
| [4] | I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, |
| [5] | Cast off 2 among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. |
| [6] | Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps. |
| [7] | Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. [Selah |
| [8] | Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. |
| [9] | Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee. |
| [10] | Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they 3 that are deceased arise and praise thee? [Selah |
| [11] | Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction? 4 |
| [12] | Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? |
| [13] | But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee. |
| [14] | Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me? |
| [15] | I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. |
| [16] | Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off. |
| [17] | They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together. |
| [18] | Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into 5 darkness. |
| Note 1. Or, for singing. [back] |
| Note 2. Or, away. [back] |
| Note 3. Or, the shades.Heb. Rephaim. [back] |
| Note 4. Heb. Abaddon. See Job 26. 6. [back] |
| Note 5. Or, are darkness. [back] |
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