Psalm 88:1-18
A sad cry
I call out to you in the day,
and I pray for help at night.
I am calling to you for help!
I feel that I am near to death.
I feel completely
Their bodies already lie in their graves.
You do not remember them any more
You cannot use your power to help them.
far down in a very dark place.
It is like the
to keep away from me.
They do not even want to look at me.
A trap has caught me
and I cannot
because I am so sad.
Lord, every day I call to you for help.
I lift my hands up to you as I pray.
Dead people cannot get up and
cannot talk about your
In the world of death,
they cannot say how
they do not see your
In that place where people forget everything,
they cannot know about the good things that you do.
I call to you for help.
Every morning I pray to you.
Why do you turn away from me?
I have always been near to death.
You have caused bad troubles to frighten me,
so that I feel
You are attacking me and destroying me!
like a
They come very near to me,
on every side.
to stay away from me.
All that I have near to me is