The actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version (‘HE’ Bible) — Psalms Chapter 88.

CHAP. LXXXVIII.

A prayer contayning a grieuous complaint.

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¹ [A song or Psalme for the sonnes of Korah, to the chiefe Musician vpon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O Lord God of my saluation, I haue cried day and night before thee.

² Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine eare vnto my cry.

³ For my soule is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh vnto the graue.

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⁴ I am counted with them that go downe into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength.

⁵ Free among the dead, like the slaine that lie in the graue, whom thou remembrest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.⁵

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⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit: in darkenesse, in the deepes.

⁷ Thy wrath lieth hard vpon me: and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waues. Selah.

⁸ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from mee: thou hast made me an abomination vnto them: I am shut vp, and I cannot come forth.

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⁹ Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction, Lord, I haue called daily vpon thee: I haue stretched out my hands vnto thee.

¹⁰ Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shal the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

¹¹ Shall thy louing kindnesse be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnesse in destruction?

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¹² Shall thy wonders be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnesse in the land of forgetfulnesse?

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¹³ But vnto thee haue I cried, O Lord, and in the morning shall my prayer preuent thee.

¹⁴ Lord, why castest thou off my soule? why hidest thou thy face from me?

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die, from my youth vp: while I suffer thy terrours, I am distracted.

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¹⁶ Thy fierce wrath goeth ouer me: thy terrours haue cut me off.

¹⁷ They came round about mee daily like water: they compassed mee about together.¹⁷

¹⁸ Louer and friend hast thou put farre from me: and mine acquaintance into darkenesse.

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