88 O Lord, the God of my salvation,
I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You.^(A)
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Let my prayer come before You and enter into Your presence;
Incline Your ear to my cry!
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For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
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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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[a]Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave,
Whom You no longer remember,
And they are cut off from Your hand.
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You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
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Your wrath has rested heavily upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves.^(B) Selah.
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You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an ^[b]object of loathing to them.
I am shut up and I cannot go out.
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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].