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Psalms 88

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: ✦ 2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; ✦ 3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. ✦ 4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: ✦ 5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. ✦ 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. ✦ 7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. ✦ 8Thou 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. ✦ 9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. ✦ 10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. ✦ 11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? ✦ 12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ✦ 13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. ✦ 14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? ✦ 15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. ✦ 16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. ✦ 17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. ✦ 18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. ✦

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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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Lay

  • ★ 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.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 88YouTube · Lay · Free

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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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