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Read Full Chapter (Psalms 88) Psalms 88:2-5 KJV
"Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand."
Psalms 88:2-5 in Context (Verses 1–8 KJV)
1
O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:**
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Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
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For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
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I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
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Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.*
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Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
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Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.