Psalms 88:1-5

¹A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the Ezrahite. Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee.

²Let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my cry.

³For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.

⁴I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:

⁵Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.