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Psalm 88
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O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: |
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Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; |
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For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. |
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I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath
no strength: |
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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. |
"The dead ... whom thou rememberest no more."
Is death final?
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| 88:6
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. |
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Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy
waves. Selah. |
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| 88:8
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. |
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| 88:9
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon
thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. |
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| 88:10
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee?
Selah. |
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| 88:11
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in
destruction? |
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Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land
of forgetfulness? |
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But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer
prevent thee. |
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LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? |
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| 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy
terrors I am distracted. |
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Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. |
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They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about
together. |
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Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into
darkness.
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