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         <div class="label">88</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 88</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 88:1-18 is numbered 88:2-19.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">mahalath leannoth.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Possibly a tune, &#8220;The Suffering of Affliction&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Heman the Ezrahite.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you are the God who saves me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="content">day and night I cry out to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May my prayer come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="content">turn your ear to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I am overwhelmed with troubles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="content">and my life draws near to death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I am counted among those who go down to the pit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="content">I am like one without strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I am set apart with the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">like the slain who lie in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">whom you remember no more,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">who are cut off from your care.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have put me in the lowest pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="content">in the darkest depths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your wrath lies heavily on me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="content">you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">88:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have taken from me my closest friends</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">and have made me repulsive to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">I am confined and cannot escape;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">my eyes are dim with grief.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">I call to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, every day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">I spread out my hands to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do you show your wonders to the dead?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="content">Do their spirits rise up and praise you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Is your love declared in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="content">your faithfulness in Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">88:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="content">or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I cry to you for help, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="content">in the morning my prayer comes before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do you reject me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="content">and hide your face from me?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">From my youth I have suffered and been close to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="content">I have borne your terrors and am in despair.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your wrath has swept over me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="content">your terrors have destroyed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All day long they surround me like a flood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="content">they have completely engulfed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.88.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You have taken from me friend and neighbor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.88.18"><span class="content">darkness is my closest friend.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">90</div><div class="ms"><span class="heading">BOOK IV</span></div><div class="mr"><span class="heading">  </span><span class="heading">Psalms 90&#8211;106</span></div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 90</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A prayer of Moses the man of God.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.90.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Lord, you have been our dwelling place</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.90.1"><span class="content">throughout all generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.90.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.90.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Before the mountains were born</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.90.2"><span class="content">or you brought forth the whole world,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.90.2"><span class="content">from everlasting to everlasting you are God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.90.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.90.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You turn people back to dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.90.3"><span class="content">saying, &#8220;Return to dust, you mortals.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.90.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.90.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">A thousand years in your sight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.90.4"><span class="content">are like a day that has just gone by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.90.4"><span class="content">or like a watch in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.90.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.90.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.90.5"><span class="content">they are like the new grass of the morning:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.90.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.90.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In the morning it springs up new,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.90.6"><span class="content">but by evening it is dry and withered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.90.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.90.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">We are consumed by your anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.90.7"><span class="content">and terrified by your indignation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.90.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.90.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have set our iniquities before you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.90.8"><span class="content">our secret sins in the light of your presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.90.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.90.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All our days pass away under your wrath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.90.9"><span class="content">we finish our years with a moan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.90.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.90.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Our days may come to seventy years,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.90.10"><span class="content">or eighty, if our strength endures;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.90.10"><span class="content">yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.90.10"><span class="content">for they quickly pass, and we fly away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.90.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.90.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If only we knew the power of your anger!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.90.11"><span class="content">Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.90.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.90.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Teach us to number our days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.90.12"><span class="content">that we may gain a heart of wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.90.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.90.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Relent, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! How long will it be?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.90.13"><span class="content">Have compassion on your servants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.90.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.90.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.90.14"><span class="content">that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.90.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.90.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.90.15"><span class="content">for as many years as we have seen trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.90.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.90.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">May your deeds be shown to your servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.90.16"><span class="content">your splendor to their children.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.90.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.90.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">May the favor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">90:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">beauty</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the Lord our God rest on us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.90.17"><span class="content">establish the work of our hands for us&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.90.17"><span class="content">yes, establish the work of our hands.</span></span></div>
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