{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Psalms",
 "chapter": 88,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "[A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?"
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?"
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness."
  }
 ],
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 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}