15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
    I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.[a]
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
    your (A)dreadful assaults destroy me.
17 They (B)surround me like a flood (C)all day long;
    they (D)close in on me together.
18 You have caused (E)my beloved and my friend to shun me;
    my companions have become darkness.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  2. Psalm 88:18 Or darkness has become my only companion

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