(KJV) Psalm 881

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⥃I Cry Out before You

A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil2 of Heman3 the Ezrahite.

[1] O Lord4 God of my salvation, I have5 cried day [and] night before thee: [2] Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;6 [3] For my soul7 is full of troubles: and my life8 draweth nigh unto the grave. [4] I am counted9 with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man10 [that hath] no strength: [5] Free11 among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom12 thou rememberest no more: and they are cut13 off from thy hand14. [6] Thou hast laid me in the lowest15 pit, in darkness16, in the deeps17. [7] Thy wrath18 lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with19 all thy waves. Selah. [8] Thou hast put20 away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made21 me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut22 up, and I cannot come forth. [9] Mine23 eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called24 daily upon thee, I have stretched25 out my hands unto thee. [10] Wilt thou26 shew wonders to the dead? shall27 the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah. [11] Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction28? [12] Shall thy wonders be known in the dark29? and thy righteousness in the land30 of forgetfulness? [13] But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in31 the morning shall my prayer prevent thee32. [14] Lord33, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest34 thou thy face from me? [15] I [am] afflicted35 and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while36] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. [16] Thy fierce37 wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me38 off. [17] They39 came round about me daily40 like water; they compassed me about together. [18] Lover41 and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance42 into darkness.

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  1. Ps 88:1, A prayer containing a grievous complaint. Mahalath. Ps 53:1 *title ↩

  2. etc. or, A Psalm of Heman the Ezrahite, giving instruction, Supposed to have been written by Heman, son of Zerah, and grandson of Judah, on the oppression of the Hebrews in Egypt. ↩

  3. 1Kgs 4:31; 1Chr 2:6 ↩

  4. Ps 27:1, Ps 27:9, Ps 51:14, Ps 62:7, Ps 65:5, Ps 68:19, Ps 79:9, Ps 140:7; Gen 49:18; Isa 12:2; Luke 1:47, Luke 2:30; Titus 2:10, Titus 2:13, Titus 3:4-7 ↩

  5. Ps 22:2, Ps 86:3; Neh 1:6; Isa 62:6; Luke 2:37, Luke 18:7; 1Thess 3:10; 2Tim 1:3 ↩

  6. Ps 79:11, Ps 141:1-2; 1Kgs 8:31; Lam 3:8 ↩

  7. Ps 88:14-15, Ps 22:11-21, Ps 69:17-21, Ps 77:2, Ps 143:3-4; Job 6:2-4; Isa 53:3, Isa 53:10-11; Lam 3:15-19; Matt 26:37-39; Mark 14:33-34 ↩

  8. Ps 107:18; Job 33:22 ↩

  9. Ps 28:1, Ps 30:9, Ps 143:7; Job 17:1; Isa 38:17-18; Ezek 26:20; Jonah 2:6; 2Cor 1:9 ↩

  10. Ps 31:12, Ps 109:22-24; Rom 5:6; 2Cor 13:4 ↩

  11. Isa 14:9-12, Isa 38:10-12; Ezek 32:18-32 ↩

  12. Ps 136:23; Gen 8:1, Gen 19:29 ↩

  13. Ps 88:16, Ps 31:22; Job 6:9, Job 11:10; Isa 53:8 ↩

  14. or, by thy hand ↩

  15. Ps 40:2, Ps 86:13; Deut 32:22 ↩

  16. Ps 143:3; Prov 4:19; Lam 3:2; John 12:46; Jude 1:6, Jude 1:13 ↩

  17. Ps 69:15, Ps 130:1 ↩

  18. Ps 38:1, Ps 90:7, Ps 102:10; Job 6:4, Job 10:16; John 3:36; Rom 2:5-9; 1Pet 2:24; Rev 6:16-17 ↩

  19. Ps 42:7; Jonah 2:3 ↩

  20. Ps 88:18, Ps 31:11, Ps 143:4; 1Sam 23:18-20; Job 19:13-19; John 11:57 ↩

  21. Isa 49:7, Isa 63:3; Zech 11:8; Matt 27:21-25; John 15:23-24 ↩

  22. Job 12:14, Job 19:8; Lam 3:7-9 ↩

  23. Ps 38:10, Ps 42:3, Ps 102:9; Job 16:20, Job 17:7; Lam 3:48-49; John 11:35 ↩

  24. Ps 88:1, Ps 55:17, Ps 86:3 ↩

  25. Ps 44:20, Ps 68:31, Ps 143:6; Ezek 17:11; Job 11:13 ↩

  26. The interrogations in these verses imply the strongest negations. Ps 6:5, Ps 30:9, Ps 115:17, Ps 118:17; Isa 38:18-19; Mark 5:35-36 ↩

  27. Job 14:7-12; Isa 26:19; Ezek 37:1-14; Luke 7:12-16; 1Cor 15:52-57 ↩

  28. Ps 55:23, Ps 73:18; Job 21:30, Job 26:6; Prov 15:11; Matt 7:13; Rom 9:22; 2Pet 2:1 ↩

  29. Ps 143:3; Job 10:21-22; Isa 8:22; Matt 8:12; Jude 1:13 ↩

  30. Ps 88:5, Ps 31:12; Eccl 2:16, Eccl 8:10, Eccl 9:5 ↩

  31. Ps 5:3, Ps 119:147-148; Mark 1:35 ↩

  32. "Come before thee." See note on Ps 21:3. ↩

  33. Ps 43:2, Ps 77:7-9; Matt 27:46 ↩

  34. Ps 13:1, Ps 44:24, Ps 69:17; Job 13:24 ↩

  35. Ps 73:14; Job 17:1, Job 17:11-16; Isa 53:3 ↩

  36. Ps 22:14-15; Job 6:4, Job 7:11-16; Isa 53:10; Zech 13:7; Luke 22:44 ↩

  37. Ps 38:1-2, Ps 89:46, Ps 90:7, Ps 90:11, Ps 102:10; Isa 53:4-6; Rom 8:32; Gal 3:13; Rev 6:17 ↩

  38. Isa 53:8; Dan 9:26 ↩

  39. Ps 22:16, Ps 42:7, Ps 69:1-2, Ps 116:3; Job 16:12-13, Job 30:14-15; Lam 3:5-7; Matt 27:39-44 ↩

  40. or, all the day ↩

  41. Ps 88:8, Ps 31:11, Ps 38:11; Job 19:12-15 ↩

  42. A figurative expression to denote that he now never saw them. ↩