Psalms 88:10-18

¹⁰Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

¹¹Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

¹²May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

¹³But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.

¹⁴Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

¹⁵I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

¹⁶The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

¹⁷They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

¹⁸You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.