Psalms 88

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:	1 [Song Psalm Of the sons of Korah In sickness In suffering Poem For Heman the native-born] Yahweh,God of my salvation, when I cry out to you in the night,
2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;	2 may my prayer reach your presence, hear my cry for help.
3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.	3 For I am fil ed with misery, my life is on the brink of Sheol;
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:	4 already numbered among those who sink into oblivion, I am as one bereft of strength,
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.	5 left alone among the dead, like the slaughtered lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, cutoff as they are from your protection.
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.	6 You have plunged me to the bottom of the grave, in the darkness, in the depths;
7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.	7 weighted down by your anger, kept low by your waves.Pause
8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.	8 You have deprived me of my friends, made me repulsive to them, imprisoned, with no escape;
9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.	9 my eyes are worn out with suffering. I call to you, Yahweh, al day, I stretch out my hands to you.
10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.	10 Do you work wonders for the dead, can shadows rise up to praise you?Pause
11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?	11 Do they speak in the grave of your faithful love, of your constancy in the place of perdition?
12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?	12 Are your wonders known in the darkness, your saving justice in the land of oblivion?
13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.	13 But, for my part, I cry to you, Yahweh, every morning my prayer comes before you;
14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?	14 why, Yahweh, do you rebuff me, turn your face away from me?
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.	15 Wretched and close to death since childhood, I have borne your terrors -- I am finished!
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.	16 Your anger has overwhelmed me, your terrors annihilated me.
17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.	17 They flood around me al day long, close in on me al at once.
18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.	18 You have deprived me of friends and companions, and al that I know is the dark.