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		Ps 88:1 O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You. [Luke 18:7]
		Ps 88:2 Let my prayer come before You and enter into Your presence; Incline Your ear to my cry!
		Ps 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
		Ps 88:4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave); I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],
		Ps 88:5 Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead, Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave, Whom You no longer remember, And they are cut off from Your hand.
		Ps 88:6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths.
		Ps 88:7 Your wrath has rested heavily upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. [Ps 42:7] Selah.
		Ps 88:8 You have put my friends far from me; You have made me an object of loathing to them. I am shut up and I cannot go out.
		Ps 88:9 My eye grows dim with sorrow. O LORD, I have called on You every day; I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].
		Ps 88:10 ¶ Will You perform wonders for the dead? Shall the departed spirits arise and praise You? Selah.
		Ps 88:11 Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?
		Ps 88:12 Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?
		Ps 88:13 ¶ But I have cried out to You, O LORD, for help; And in the morning my prayer will come to You.
		Ps 88:14 O LORD, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me? [Matt 27:46]
		Ps 88:15 I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on; I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.
		Ps 88:16 Your fierce wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
		Ps 88:17 They have surrounded me like flood waters all day long; They have completely encompassed me.
		Ps 88:18 Lover and friend You have placed far from me; My familiar friends are in darkness. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of Ethan the Ezrahite.<SS>

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