Book of Psalms, No. 88
Psalms 88 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 88 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ O Jehovah, the God of my salvation,1
By day I have cried out,2
In the night [also] in front of you.3 - ¶ Before you my prayer will come.4
Incline your ear to my entreating cry.5 - ¶ For my soul has had enough of calamities,6
And my very life has come in touch even with Sheʹol.[a]7 - ¶ I have been reckoned in among those going down to the pit;8
I have become like an able-bodied man without strength,9 - ¶ Set free among the dead themselves,10
Like slain ones lying in the burial place,11
¶ Whom you have remembered no longer
And who have been severed from your own [helping] hand.12 - ¶ You have put me in a pit of the lowest depths,
In dark places, in a large abyss.[b]13 - ¶ Upon me your rage has thrown itself,14
And with all your breaking waves you have afflicted [me].15 Seʹlah. - ¶ You have put my acquaintances far away from me;16
You have set me as something very detestable to them.17
I am under restraint and cannot go forth.18 - ¶ My own eye has languished because of my affliction.19
I have called on you, O Jehovah, all day long;20
To you I have spread out my palms.21 - ¶ For those who are dead will you do a marvel?22
Or will those impotent in death[c] themselves arise,23
Will they laud you?24 Seʹlah. - ¶ Will your loving-kindness be declared in the burial place[d] itself,
Your faithfulness in [the place of] destruction?[e]25 - ¶ Will a marvel by you be known in the darkness itself,26
Or your righteousness in the land of oblivion?27 - ¶ And yet to you, O Jehovah, I myself have cried for help,28
And in the morning my own prayer keeps confronting you.29 - ¶ Why is it, O Jehovah, that you cast off my soul?30
Why do you keep your face concealed from me?31 - ¶ I am afflicted and about to expire from boyhood on;32
I have borne frightful things from you very much.[f]33 - ¶ Over me your flashes of burning anger have passed;34
Terrors from you yourself have brought me to silence.35 - ¶ They have surrounded me like waters all day long;36
They have closed in upon me all at one time. - ¶ You have put far away from me friend and companion;37
My acquaintances are a dark place.38
FOOTNOTES
- ^ “With Sheol.” Heb., lish·ʼohlʹ; Gr., haiʹdei; Lat., in·ferʹno. See App 4B.
- ^ Lit., “abysses,” pl., likely to denote grandioseness.
- ^ “Those impotent in death.” Heb., repha·ʼimʹ; T, “bodies dissolved in the dust”; LXXVg, “healers (medical doctors)”; Sy, “mighty ones (giants).” Compare Job 26:5 ftn.
- ^ “The grave,” LXX; Vg, “sepulcher.”
- ^ “In [the place of] destruction.” Heb., ba·ʼavad·dohnʹ; Syr., baʼv·da·naʼ; LXX, “in destruction”; Lat., in per·di·ti·oʹne, “in perdition.” See Job 26:6 ftn.
- ^ “Very much.” Heb., ʼa·phuʹnah, of uncertain meaning; LXXSyVg, “I am embarrassed (confused).”
REFERENCES
- ^ Ge 49:18; Ps 27:9; 51:14; 68:19; Is 12:2; Lu 1:47
- ^ Ps 86:3
- ^ Ps 22:2
- ^ 1Ki 8:30; Ps 79:11
- ^ Ps 141:1
- ^ Ps 71:20
- ^ Ps 107:18; Is 38:10
- ^ Jb 33:22; Ps 143:7
- ^ Ps 31:12
- ^ Is 14:9
- ^ Eze 32:18
- ^ Ps 10:11
- ^ Ps 143:3
- ^ Ps 90:7; 102:10
- ^ Ps 42:7
- ^ Jb 19:13, 19; Ps 31:11; 142:4; Lu 23:49
- ^ Mt 27:22; Jn 15:23
- ^ La 3:7
- ^ Jb 17:7; Ps 38:10; 42:3; La 3:49
- ^ Ps 55:17; 86:3
- ^ 1Ki 8:54; 2Ch 6:13; Ps 143:6
- ^ Ps 6:5
- ^ Jb 14:14
- ^ Ps 30:9; 115:17; Is 38:18
- ^ Jb 26:6; Ec 3:20
- ^ Jb 10:21; Ps 143:3
- ^ Ps 31:12; Ec 2:16; 8:10; 9:5
- ^ Ps 5:3; 46:1
- ^ Ps 55:17; 119:147
- ^ Ps 43:2
- ^ Jb 13:24; Ps 13:1
- ^ Jb 17:1
- ^ Jb 6:4
- ^ Ps 102:10
- ^ Is 53:8
- ^ Ps 22:16; 69:2
- ^ Jb 19:13; Ps 31:11; 38:11; 88:8
- ^ Ps 142:4
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