PSALMS 88

1 Yahweh God, you who rescues me, all during each day I call out to you to help me, and I cry out to you during each night also.
2 Listen [IDM] to my prayer [DOU], while I cry out to you for help!
3 I have experienced many troubles/difficulties, and I am about to die [MTY] and go where dead people are.
4 Because I have no more strength, other people also consider that I will soon die.
5 I am like a corpse that has been abandoned; I am like dead people who lie in their graves, people who have been completely forgotten, because you do not take care of them any more.
6 It is as though you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit, into a place where they throw corpses.
7 It seems like you are very angry with me, and it is as though you have crushed me like ocean waves crash down on people [MET]. (Think about that!)
8 You have caused my friends to ◄avoid/stay away from► me; I have become repulsive to them. It is as though I am in a prison and cannot escape.
9 My eyes cannot see well because I cry very much. Yahweh, every day I call out to you to help me; I lift up my hands to you while I pray.
10 You certainly do not [RHQ] perform miracles for dead people! Their spirits do not [RHQ] arise to praise you! (Think about that!)
11 Corpses in the grave certainly do not tell about your faithfully loving us [RHQ], and in the place where people are finally destroyed, no one tells about what you faithfully do for us [RHQ].
12 No one in the deep dark pit ever sees the miracles that you perform [RHQ], and no one in the place where people have been completely forgotten tells about your being good to us.
13 But as for me, Yahweh, I cry out to you to help me; each morning I pray to you.
14 Yahweh, why do you reject me [RHQ]? Why do you turn away from me [RHQ]?
15 All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died; I am ◄in despair/very discouraged► because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me.
16 I feel that you have crushed me because of your being angry with me; the terrible things that you are doing to me are almost destroying me.
17 I feel as though they surround me like a flood [SIM]; they are ◄closing in on/crushing► me from all sides.
18 You have caused even my friends and others whom I love to avoid me, and it is as though the only friend that I have is darkness.
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