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adrift[a] among the dead,
like corpses lying in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
and who are cut off from your power.[b]
You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit,[c]
in the dark places, in the watery depths.
Your anger bears down on me,
and you overwhelm me with all your waves. (Selah)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:5 tn Heb “set free.”
  2. Psalm 88:5 tn Heb “from your hand.”
  3. Psalm 88:6 tn The noun בּוֹר (bor, “pit,” “cistern”) is sometimes used of the grave and/or the realm of the dead. See v. 4.