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Psalm 87 (88) Catholic Public Domain Version

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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 88 · About the recordings

Notes on this text (4)

Psalm 87 in CPDV = Psalm 88 in WEB.

CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Unto the end. For Mahalath, to answer the understanding of Heman the Ezrahite.
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2 O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence.
88:1 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.
3 Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition.
88:2 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.
4 For my soul has been filled with evils, and my life has drawn near to Hell.
88:3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
5 I am considered to be among those who will descend into the pit. I have become like a man without assistance,
88:4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
6 idle among the dead. I am like the wounded sleeping in sepulchers, whom you no longer remember, and who have been repelled by your hand.
88:5 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.
7 They have lain me in the lower pit: in dark places and in the shadow of death.
88:6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
8 Your fury has been confirmed over me. And you have brought all your waves upon me.
88:7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
9 You have sent my acquaintances far from me. They have set me as an abomination to themselves. I was handed over, yet I did not depart.
88:8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
10 My eyes languished before destitution. All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. I stretched out my hands to you.
88:9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
11 Will you perform wonders for the dead? Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you?
88:10 Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
12 Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, or your truth from within perdition?
88:11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
13 Will your wonders be known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion?
88:12 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
14 And I have cried out to you, O Lord, and in early morning, my prayer will come before you.
88:13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
15 Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me?
88:14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
16 I am poor, and I have been amid hardships from my youth. And, though I have been exalted, I am humbled and disturbed.
88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
17 Your wrath has crossed into me, and your terrors have disturbed me.
88:16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
18 They have surrounded me like water, all day long. They have surrounded me, all at once.
88:17 They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
19 Friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances, you have sent far away from me, away from misery.
88:18 You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

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  • Heman the Ezrahite

    Psalm 88 author named in title

    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

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Cross references (19)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.

  1. 1 Isaiah 12:2; Psalm 22:2; Luke 18:7; Psalm 86:3; Genesis 49:18
  2. 2 Isaiah 12:2; Psalm 22:2; Luke 18:7; Psalm 86:3; Genesis 49:18
  3. 3 Psalm 31:2; Psalm 141:1–2; Lamentations 3:8; Psalm 79:11; 1 Kings 8:31
  4. 4 Psalm 107:18; Lamentations 3:15–19; Mark 14:33–34; Psalm 69:17–21; Isaiah 53:3
  5. 5 Psalm 28:1; 2 Corinthians 1:9; Isaiah 38:17–18; Psalm 31:12; Psalm 143:7
  6. 6 Isaiah 53:8; Psalm 31:22; Isaiah 14:9–12; Psalm 136:23; Job 6:9
  7. 7 Psalm 69:15; Psalm 86:13; Psalm 40:2; Psalm 143:3; Lamentations 3:2
  8. 8 Psalm 42:7; 1 Peter 2:24; Romans 2:5–9; Job 6:4; John 3:36
  9. 9 Psalm 31:11; Isaiah 49:7; Job 30:10; Isaiah 63:3; Zechariah 11:8
  10. 10 Job 11:13; Psalm 86:3; Psalm 38:10; Psalm 143:6; Psalm 42:3
  11. 11 Isaiah 26:19; Psalm 6:5; Isaiah 38:18–19; Psalm 30:9; 1 Corinthians 15:52–57
  12. 12 Proverbs 15:11; Psalm 55:23; Matthew 7:13; Romans 9:22; Job 21:30
  13. 13 Ecclesiastes 9:5; Matthew 8:12; Job 10:21–22; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Isaiah 8:22
  14. 14 Psalm 5:3; Mark 1:35; Psalm 30:2; Psalm 119:147–148
  15. 15 Job 13:24; Psalm 13:1; Psalm 43:2; Psalm 44:24; Matthew 27:46
  16. 16 Job 6:4; Luke 22:44; Psalm 73:14; Job 7:11–16; Isaiah 53:10
  17. 17 Galatians 3:13; Revelation 6:17; Psalm 90:7; Psalm 89:46; Romans 8:32
  18. 18 Psalm 22:16; Psalm 69:1–2; Psalm 116:3; Job 30:14–15; Psalm 42:7
  19. 19 Psalm 88:8; Psalm 38:11; Job 19:12–15; Psalm 31:11

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

Articles and answers on this site that cite Psalm 88 (Hebrew/English numbering).

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 88.

How these were chosen

“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).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXXXVII)

    The Psalm which has just been sung is short, if we look to the number of its words, but of deep interest in its thoughts....The subject of song and praise in that Psalm is a city, whose citizens are we, as far as we are Christians: whence we are absent, as long as we are mortal: whither we are tending: …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)