engLXXup: Psalms 87

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 [1] A song of a Psalm for the sons of Korah for the end, upon Mahalath for responsive strains, of instruction for Heman the Israelite.

[2] O Lord God of my salvation,

I have cried by day and in the night before thee.

[3] Let my prayer come in before thee;

Incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.

[4] For my soul is filled with troubles,

And my life has drawn nigh to Hades.

[5] I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit;

I became as a man without help; [6] free among the dead,

As the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb;

Whom thou rememberest no more;

And they are rejected from thy hand.

[7] They laid me in the lowest pit,

In dark places, and in the shadow of death.

[8] Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me,

And thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.

[9] Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me;

They have made me an abomination to themselves;

I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.

[10] Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty;

But I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day;

I spread forth my hands to thee.

[11] Wilt thou work wonders for the dead?

Or shall physicians raise them up, that they shall praise thee?

[12] Shall anyone declare thy mercy in the tomb?

And thy truth in destruction?

[13] Shall thy wonders be known in darkness?

And thy righteousness in a forgotten land?

[14] But I cried to thee, O Lord;

And in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

[15] Wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my prayer,

And turn thy face away from me?

[16] I am poor and in troubles from my youth;

And having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.

[17] Thy wrath has passed over me;

And thy terrors have greatly disquieted me.

[18] They compassed me like water;

All the day they beset me together.

[19] Thou hast put far from me every friend,

And mine acquaintances because of my wretchedness.

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