New American Standard Bible 1995

Psalms 88:1-7

1 1 2O Lord, the 3God of my salvation, I have 4cried out by day and in the night before You.2Let my prayer 5come before You; 6Incline Your ear to my cry!3For my 7soul has 8had enough troubles, And 9my life has drawn near to 10Sheol.4I am reckoned among those who 11go down to the pit; I have become like a man 12without strength,5 13Forsaken 14among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And they are 15cut off from Your hand.6You have put me in 16the lowest pit, In 17dark places, in the 18depths.7Your wrath 19has rested upon me, And You have afflicted me with 20all Your waves. 21Selah.

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Notes

1. Psalms 88:1 Possibly, Contemplative, or Didactic, or Skillful Psalm ↩
2. Psalms 88:1 1 Kin 4:31; 1 Chr 2:6; Ps 89: title ↩
3. Psalms 88:1 Ps 24:5; 27:9 ↩
4. Psalms 88:1 Ps 22:2; 86:3; Luke 18:7 ↩
5. Psalms 88:2 Ps 18:6 ↩
6. Psalms 88:2 Ps 31:2; 86:1 ↩
7. Psalms 88:3 Ps 107:26 ↩
8. Psalms 88:3 Or been satisfied with ↩
9. Psalms 88:3 Ps 107:18; 116:3 ↩
10. Psalms 88:3 I.e. the nether world ↩
11. Psalms 88:4 Ps 28:1; 143:7 ↩
12. Psalms 88:4 Job 29:12; Ps 22:11 ↩
13. Psalms 88:5 Lit A freed one among the dead ↩
14. Psalms 88:5 Ps 31:12 ↩
15. Psalms 88:5 Ps 31:22; Is 53:8 ↩
16. Psalms 88:6 Ps 86:13; Lam 3:55 ↩
17. Psalms 88:6 Ps 143:3 ↩
18. Psalms 88:6 Ps 69:15 ↩
19. Psalms 88:7 Ps 32:4; 39:10 ↩
20. Psalms 88:7 Ps 42:7 ↩
21. Psalms 88:7 Selah may mean: Pause, Crescendo or Musical interlude ↩

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