Thematic Bible
Psalm 88:1 (show verse)
I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You.
Psalm 88:2 (show verse)
Let my prayer come before You and enter into Your presence;
Incline Your ear to my cry!
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Psalm 88:3 (show verse)
For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
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Psalm 88:4 (show verse)
I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave);
I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],
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Psalm 88:5 (show verse)
Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave,
Whom You no longer remember,
And they are cut off from Your hand.
Psalm 88:6 (show verse)
You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
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Psalm 88:7 (show verse)
Your wrath has rested heavily upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves.
Psalm 88:8 (show verse)
You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an
I am shut up and I cannot go out.
Psalm 88:9 (show verse)
My eye grows dim with sorrow.
O Lord, I have called on You every day;
I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].
Psalm 88:10 (show verse)
Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Shall the departed spirits arise and praise You? Selah.
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Psalm 88:11 (show verse)
Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave
Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?
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Psalm 88:12 (show verse)
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?
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Psalm 88:13 (show verse)
But I have cried out to You, O Lord, for help;
And in the morning my prayer will come to You.
Psalm 88:14 (show verse)
O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?
Psalm 88:15 (show verse)
I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.
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Psalm 88:16 (show verse)
Your fierce wrath has swept over me;
Your terrors have destroyed me.
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Psalm 88:17 (show verse)
They have surrounded me like flood waters all day long;
They have completely encompassed me.
Psalm 88:18 (show verse)
Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.