1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you: AKJV — Psalm 88:1
2 Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear to my cry; AKJV — Psalm 88:2
3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave. AKJV — Psalm 88:3
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength: AKJV — Psalm 88:4
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand. AKJV — Psalm 88:5
6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. AKJV — Psalm 88:6
7 Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. AKJV — Psalm 88:7
8 You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. AKJV — Psalm 88:8
9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you. AKJV — Psalm 88:9
10 Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah. AKJV — Psalm 88:10
11 Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction? AKJV — Psalm 88:11
12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? AKJV — Psalm 88:12
13 But to you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you. AKJV — Psalm 88:13
14 LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me? AKJV — Psalm 88:14
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted. AKJV — Psalm 88:15
16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off. AKJV — Psalm 88:16
17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. AKJV — Psalm 88:17
18 Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness. AKJV — Psalm 88:18