Psalms 88 — Novel English Bible

1 Yahawah (), the Alahayam () of my yashawaih (salvation), I have tzaiq (cried) yawam (day) and layal (night) before you.

2 Let my thapalah (prayer) bawaa (bring) into your panayam (face). Natah (turn) your azan (ear) to my ranah (cry).

3 For my napash (soul) is shabai (full) of raiwath (troubles). My chay (life) hagayaiw (draws) near to shaawal (Sheol / afterlife).

4 I am chashab (counted) among those who yarad (go) down into the bawar (pit). I am like a gabar (man) who has no help,

5 Set apart among the mawath (death), like the chalal (slain) who shakab (lie) in the qabar (grave / tomb / sepulcher), whom you zakar (remember) no more. They are gazar (cut) off from your yad (hand).

6 You have shayath (put / appoint / make) me in the lowest bawar (pit), in the darkest matzalawath (depths).

7 Your chamah (wrath) samak (lies) heavily on me. You have inah (answer / respond) me with all your mashabar (waves). Salah (selah).

8 You have taken my yadai (friends) from me. You have shayath (put / appoint / make) me an thawaibah (abomination) to them. I am confined, and I can't yatzaa (go out / come out).

9 My iyan (eye) are dim from grief. I have qaraa (called) on you yawam (day), Yahawah (). I have shatach (spread) out my kap (hands) to you.

10 Ishah (make) you show palaa (wonders) to the mawath (death)? Do the rapaa (dead) qawam (rise up) up and yadah (praise) you? Salah (selah).

11 Is your loving chasad (grace) sapar (book) in the qabar (grave / tomb / sepulcher)? Or your amawanah (faithfulness) in abadawan (destruction)?

12 Are your palaa (wonders) yadai (made) known in the chashak (darkness)? Or your tzadaqah (righteousness) in the aratz (Earth/land) of nashayah (forgetfulness)?

13 But to you, Yahawah (), I have shawai (cried). In the baqar (morning), my thapalah (prayer) qadam (comes) before you.

14 Yahawah (), why do you reject my napash (soul)? Why do you sathar (hide) your panayam (face) from me?

15 I am inay (afflicted) and ready to gawai (die) from my nair (youth) up. While I nashaa (lift) your ayamah (terrors), I am pawan (distracted).

16 Your fierce charawan (wrath) ibar (pass over/through) gone over me. Your baiwathayam (terrors) have tzamath (cut) me off.

17 They sabab (came) around me like mayam (Waters) all yawam (day) long. They completely engulfed me.

18 You have put lover and rai (neigbor/another person) rachaq (far) from me, and my yadai (friends) into machashak (darkness).