Psalm 88

 ¹O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

 ²Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

 ³For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

 ⁴I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

 ⁵Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

 ⁶Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

 ⁷Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

 ⁸Thou 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.

 ⁹Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

 ¹⁰Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

 ¹¹Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

 ¹²Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

 ¹³But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

 ¹⁴LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

 ¹⁵I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

 ¹⁶Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

 ¹⁷They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

 ¹⁸Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.