Psalms 88 — T4T

A psalm that expresses sadness, written for the choir director by Zerah’s son Heman, one of the descendants of Korah

88Verse 1Yahweh 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.
^{Verse 2}Listen [IDM] to my prayer [DOU],while I cry out to you for help!^{Verse 3}I have experienced many troubles/difficulties,and I am about to die [MTY] and go where dead people are.^{Verse 4}Because I have no more strength,other people also consider that I will soon die.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 6}It is as though you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit,into a place where they throw corpses.^{Verse 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!)^{Verse 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.
^{Verse 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.^{Verse 10}You certainly do not [RHQ] perform miracles for dead people!
Their spirits do not [RHQ] arise to praise you!(Think about that!)^{Verse 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].^{Verse 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.^{Verse 13}But as for me, Yahweh, I cry out to you to help me;each morning I pray to you.^{Verse 14}Yahweh, why do you reject me [RHQ]?Why do you turn away from me [RHQ]?^{Verse 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.
^{Verse 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.^{Verse 17}I feel as though they surround me like a flood [SIM];they are ◄closing in on/crushing► me from all sides.^{Verse 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.