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Psalms 88

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You. ✦ 2May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry. ✦ 3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. ✦ 4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. ✦ 5I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care. ✦ 6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths. ✦ 7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah ✦ 8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape. ✦ 9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You. ✦ 10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah ✦ 11Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? ✦ 12Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion? ✦ 13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You. ✦ 14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me? ✦ 15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. ✦ 16Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. ✦ 17All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side. ✦ 18You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Isa 53 ·7Ps 31 ·7Lam 3 ·7Ps 88 ·6Ps 143 ·6Ps 38 ·4Job 17 ·4Job 6 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 88 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 88David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 88Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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