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Psalms 88

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You. ✦ 2Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry! ✦ 3For my soul has had enough troubles, And my life has approached Sheol. ✦ 4I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength, ✦ 5Abandoned among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You no longer remember, And they are cut off from Your hand. ✦ 6You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths. ✦ 7Your wrath has rested upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah ✦ 8You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an object of loathing to them; I am shut up and cannot go out. ✦ 9My eye grows dim from misery; I have called upon You every day, Lord; I have spread out my hands to You. ✦ 10¶Will You perform wonders for the dead? Or will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah ✦ 11Will Your graciousness be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? ✦ 12Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ✦ 13¶But I, Lord, have cried out to You for help, And in the morning my prayer comes before You. ✦ 14Lord, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me? ✦ 15I was miserable and about to die from my youth on; I suffer Your terrors; I grow weary. ✦ 16Your burning anger has passed over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. ✦ 17They have surrounded me like water all day long; They have encircled me altogether. ✦ 18You have removed lover and friend far from me; My acquaintances are in a hiding place. ✦

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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.

  • 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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