87:1 Lord, the God of my salvation: * I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.
87:2 Let my prayer come in before thee: * incline thy ear to my petition.
87:3 For my soul is filled with evils: * and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
87:4 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: * I am become as a man without help, free among the dead.
87:5 Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: * and they are cast off from thy hand.
87:6 They have laid me in the lower pit: * in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
87:7 Thy wrath is strong over me: * and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
87:8 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: * they have set me an abomination to themselves.
87:9 I was delivered up, and came not forth: * my eyes languished through poverty.
87:10 All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: * I stretched out my hands to thee.
87:11 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? * or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?
87:12 Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: * and thy truth in destruction?
87:13 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; * and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
87:14 But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: * and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.
87:15 Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: * why turnest thou away thy face from me?
87:16 I am poor, and in labours from my youth: * and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.
87:17 Thy wrath hath come upon me: * and thy terrors have troubled me.
87:18 They have come round about me like water all the day: * they have compassed me about together.
87:19 Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: * and my acquaintance, because of misery.
