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Psalm 88 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)

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1 Cántico. Salmo de los hijos de Coré. Al director musical. Según majalat leannot. Masquil de Hemán el ezraíta. Señor, Dios de mi salvación, día y noche he llorado 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 Escucha ahora mi oración; escucha mi súplica,
2 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.
3 porque mi vida está llena de problemas, y la muerte se acerca.
3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
4 Me han contado entre los muertos como si fuera uno de ellos; como un hombre fuerte al que ya no le queda más fuerza.
4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
5 Me han dejado para que muera, parezco un cadáver. Me has olvidado y arrebatado de tu cuidado.
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 Me has arrojado al hoyo más profundo, al más oscuro abismo.
6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
7 Tu enojo es como una pesada carga para mí; como si fuera olas que me hunden.
7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
8 Has hecho que mis amigos me detesten, y ellos se han alejado. Estoy en una trampa 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 Los ojos se me nublan de llorar. Cada día te suplico que me ayudes; oh Señor, extiendo mis manos suplicantes pidiendo misericordia.
9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
10 ¿De qué valdrán tus milagros cuando esté yo en el sepulcro? ¿Pueden los muertos levantarse a alabarte?
10 Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
11 ¿Pueden los que están en el sepulcro hablar de tu gran amor? ¿Pueden hablar en el abismo destructor de tu fidelidad?
11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
12 ¿Pueden las tinieblas hablar de tus milagros? ¿Puede alguien en la tierra del olvido hablar de tu justicia?
12 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 Oh Señor, a ti clamo y seguiré rogándote día tras día.
13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
14 Señor, ¿por qué me rechazas? ¿Por qué escondes tu rostro de mi?
14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
15 Desde mi juventud he sido enfermizo y he estado cercano a la muerte. Me has enviado cosas terribles, y ante eso estoy indefenso y desesperado.
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
16 Tu ira me agota; las cosas terribles que me has enviado me han acabado.
16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
17 Todo el día me rodean como un mar. Me han rodeado por completo.
17 They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
18 Me has quitado amigos y seres queridos; ahora solo quedan las tinieblas.
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 (18)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

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

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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).

  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)