Verse 18
Psalms 88:18
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.
Original Language Text
hebrew
סַבּ֣וּ/נִי כַ֭/מַּיִם כָּל הַ/יּ֑וֹם הִקִּ֖יפוּ עָלַ֣/י יָֽחַד
English Translation
They surrounded me like water all day; they pressed in on me together.
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Chapter 88 Context
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A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of E...
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O Lord, the God (Elohim) of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.
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Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.
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For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
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I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,
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free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and t...
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They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
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Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
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Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was...
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my eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to...
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Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?
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Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction?
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Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
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But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.
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Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?
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I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.
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Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.
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They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.
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Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.
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