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Psalms 87
Septuagint (LXX2012) 87 compared with World English Bible 88
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1(88) A song of a Psalm for the sons of Core for the end, upon Maeleth for responsive [strains], of instruction for Aeman the Israelite. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before you.
1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
2Let my prayer come in before you; incline your ear to my supplication, O Lord.
2Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.
3For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn near to Hades.
3For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
4I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;
4I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
5free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom you remember no more; and they are rejected from your hand.
5set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
6They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark [places], and in the shadow of death.
6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
7Your wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and you have brought upon me all your billows. Pause.
7Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
8You have removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.
8You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
9My eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to you , O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to you.
9My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
10Will you work wonders for the dead? or shall physicians raise [them] up, that they shall praise you?
10Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
11Shall any one declare your mercy in the tomb? and your truth in destruction?
11Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
12Shall your wonders be known in darkness? and your righteousness in a forgotten land ?
12Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13But I cried to you, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you.
13But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
14Therefore, O Lord, do you reject my prayer, [and] turn your face away from me?
14Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
15I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.
15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
16Your wrath has passed over me; and your terrors have greatly disquieted me .
16Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
17They compassed me like water; all the day they beset me together.
17They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
18You have put far from me [every] friend, and my acquaintances because of [my] wretchedness.
18You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.