Listen to Psalm 88

¹Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you. ²Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry. ³For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. ⁴I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, ⁵set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. ⁶You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. ⁷Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. ⁸You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape. ⁹My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you. ¹⁰Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah. ¹¹Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? ¹²Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ¹³But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you. ¹⁴Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me? ¹⁵I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. ¹⁶Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off. ¹⁷They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me. ¹⁸You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.