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| [1] (88:1a) O God the Lorde of my saluation, I crye day and night before thee |
[1]O Lord God of my salvation, I cry day and night before thee. |
| [2](88:1b) let my prayer enter into thy presence, encline thyne eare vnto my crying |
[2]Let my prayer enter into thy presence: incline thine ear unto my cry. |
| [3](88:2) For my soule is full of miserie: and my life toucheth the graue |
[3]For my soul is filled with evils, and my life draweth near to the grave. |
| [4](88:3) I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit: and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength |
[4]I am counted among them that go down unto the pit, and am as a man without strength: |
| [5](88:4) I am free among the dead: like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue, whom thou remembrest no more, and are cut away from thy hande |
[5]Free among the dead, like the slain lying in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more, and they are cut off from thine hand. |
| [6](88:5) Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit: in darknes and in deepenes |
[6]Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, and in the deep. |
| [7](88:6) Thyne indignation sore presseth me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes. Selah |
[7]Thine indignation lieth upon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy waves. Selah. |
| [8](88:7) Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre from me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, I can not get foorth |
[8]Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut up, and cannot get forth. |
| [9](88:8) My sight fayleth through my affliction O God: I haue called dayly vpon thee, I haue stretched out mine handes vnto thee |
[9]Mine eye is sorrowful through mine affliction: Lord, I call daily upon thee: I stretch out mine hands unto thee. |
| [10](88:9) Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead? or shal the dead rise vp againe [and] acknowledge thee? Selah |
[10]Wilt thou show a miracle to the dead? Or shall the dead rise and praise thee? Selah. |
| [11](88:10) Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue? or thy faythfulnes in destruction |
[11]Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in destruction? |
| [12](88:11) Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes |
[12]Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of oblivion? |
| [13](88:12) But vnto thee do I crye O God: and my prayer commeth early in the morning before thee |
[13]But unto thee have I cried, O Lord, and early shall my prayer come before thee. |
| [14](88:13) O God, why abhorrest thou my soule: and [why] hidest thou thy face from me |
[14]Lord, why dost thou reject my soul, and hidest thy face from me? |
| [15](88:14) I am in miserie, I labour euen from my youth with the panges of death: I haue suffered thy terrours, [and] I am styll in doubt |
[15]I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrors, doubting of my life. |
| [16](88:15) Thyne indignation hath gone ouer me: and thy terrours haue vndone me |
[16]Thine indignations go over me, and thy fear hath cut me off. |
| [17](88:16) They came rounde about me dayly lyke water: and compassed me altogether on euery syde |
[17]They came round about me daily like water, and compassed me together. |
| [18](88:17) Thou hast put a way farre from me my frende and neighbour: [thou hast hid] mine acquaintaunce out of sight |
[18]My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me , and mine acquaintance hid themselves. |