Psalms 88:6-15

⁶They have put me in the lower pit; in dark places, and in the shadow of death.

⁷Thy strong vengeance is confirmed on me; and thou hast brought in all thy waves on me.

⁸Thou hast made far from me my known; they have set or put me abom-ination to themselves. I am taken in, and I went not out;

⁹mine eyes were sick or enfeebled for poverty. Lord, I cried to thee; all day I spreaded abroad mine hands to thee.

¹⁰Whether thou shalt do marvels to dead men; either leeches shall raise them up, and they shall acknowledge to thee?

¹¹Whether any man in sepulchre shall tell thy mercy; and thy truth in perdition?

¹²Whether thy marvels shall be known in darknesses; and thy right-fulness or rightwiseness in the land of forgetting?

¹³And, Lord, I cried to thee; and early my prayer shall before come to thee.

¹⁴Lord, why puttest thou away my prayer; thou turnest away thy face from me?

¹⁵I am poor, and in travails from my youth; soothly I am enhanced, and I am made low, and troubled.