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Psalm 88 Bible in Basic English
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
BBE Bible in Basic English
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
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1 A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
1 Canción: Salmo para los hijos de Coré: al Músico principal: para cantar sobre Mahalath: Masquil de Hemán Ezrahita. OH Jehová, Dios de mi salud, día y noche clamo delante de ti.
1 A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
2 Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:
2 Entre mi oración en tu presencia: inclina tu oído á mi clamor.
2 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
3 Porque mi alma está harta de males, y mi vida cercana al sepulcro.
3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
4 Soy contado con los que descienden al hoyo, soy como hombre sin fuerza:
4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
5 Libre entre los muertos, como los matados que yacen en el sepulcro, que no te acuerdas más de ellos, y que son cortados de tu mano.
5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
6 Hasme puesto en el hoyo profundo, en tinieblas, en honduras.
6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
7 Sobre mí se ha acostado tu ira, y me has afligido con todas tus ondas. (Selah.)
7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
8 Has alejado de mí mis conocidos: hasme puesto por abominación á ellos: encerrado estoy, y no puedo salir.
8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
9 My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
9 Mis ojos enfermaron á causa de mi aflicción: hete llamado, oh Jehová, cada día; he extendido á ti mis manos.
9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)
10 ¿Harás tú milagro á los muertos? ¿levantaránse los muertos para alabarte? (Selah.)
10 Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
11 ¿Será contada en el sepulcro tu misericordia, ó tu verdad en la perdición?
11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
12 May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
12 ¿Será conocida en las tinieblas tu maravilla, ni tu justicia en la tierra del olvido?
12 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.
13 Mas yo á ti he clamado, oh Jehová; y de mañana mi oración te previno.
13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
14 ¿Por qué, oh Jehová, desechas mi alma? ¿por qué escondes de mí tu rostro?
14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
15 Yo soy afligido y menesteroso: desde la mocedad he llevado tus terrores, he estado medroso.
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.
16 Sobre mí han pasado tus iras; tus espantos me han cortado.
16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
17 They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.
17 Hanme rodeado como aguas de continuo; hanme cercado á una.
17 They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
18 You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
18 Has alejado de mí el amigo y el compañero; y mis conocidos [se esconden] en la tiniebla.
18 You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
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Heman the Ezrahite
Named in the title of Psalm 88 as the author of its Maskil, a song also marked as a psalm of the sons of Korah. The text does not say whether he is Heman the wise man of 1 Kings…
Cited in the guide: Psalm 88:1
Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 12:2; Psalm 22:2; Luke 18:7; Psalm 86:3; Genesis 49:18
- 2 Psalm 31:2; Psalm 141:1–2; Lamentations 3:8; Psalm 79:11; 1 Kings 8:31
- 3 Psalm 107:18; Lamentations 3:15–19; Mark 14:33–34; Psalm 69:17–21; Isaiah 53:3
- 4 Psalm 28:1; 2 Corinthians 1:9; Isaiah 38:17–18; Psalm 31:12; Psalm 143:7
- 5 Isaiah 53:8; Psalm 31:22; Isaiah 14:9–12; Psalm 136:23; Job 6:9
- 6 Psalm 69:15; Psalm 86:13; Psalm 40:2; Psalm 143:3; Lamentations 3:2
- 7 Psalm 42:7; 1 Peter 2:24; Romans 2:5–9; Job 6:4; John 3:36
- 8 Psalm 31:11; Isaiah 49:7; Job 30:10; Isaiah 63:3; Zechariah 11:8
- 9 Job 11:13; Psalm 86:3; Psalm 38:10; Psalm 143:6; Psalm 42:3
- 10 Isaiah 26:19; Psalm 6:5; Isaiah 38:18–19; Psalm 30:9; 1 Corinthians 15:52–57
- 11 Proverbs 15:11; Psalm 55:23; Matthew 7:13; Romans 9:22; Job 21:30
- 12 Ecclesiastes 9:5; Matthew 8:12; Job 10:21–22; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Isaiah 8:22
- 13 Psalm 5:3; Mark 1:35; Psalm 30:2; Psalm 119:147–148
- 14 Job 13:24; Psalm 13:1; Psalm 43:2; Psalm 44:24; Matthew 27:46
- 15 Job 6:4; Luke 22:44; Psalm 73:14; Job 7:11–16; Isaiah 53:10
- 16 Galatians 3:13; Revelation 6:17; Psalm 90:7; Psalm 89:46; Romans 8:32
- 17 Psalm 22:16; Psalm 69:1–2; Psalm 116:3; Job 30:14–15; Psalm 42:7
- 18 Psalm 88:8; Psalm 38:11; Job 19:12–15; Psalm 31:11
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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