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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 out day and night before You. ✦ 2Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry. ✦ 3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near to the grave. ✦ 4I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has no strength, ✦ 5Adrift among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And who are cut off from Your hand. ✦ 6You have laid me in the lowest pit, In darkness, in the depths. ✦ 7Your wrath lies heavy upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah ✦ 8You have put away my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut up, and I cannot get out; ✦ 9My eye wastes away because of affliction. Lord, I have called daily upon You; I have stretched out my hands to You. ✦ 10Will You work wonders for the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise You? Selah ✦ 11Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in the place of destruction? ✦ 12Shall Your wonders be known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ✦ 13But to You I have cried out, O Lord, And in the morning my prayer comes before You. ✦ 14Lord, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me? ✦ 15I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth; I suffer Your terrors; I am distraught. ✦ 16Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your terrors have cut me off. ✦ 17They came around me all day long like water; They engulfed me altogether. ✦ 18Loved one and friend You have put far from me, And my acquaintances into darkness. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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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