88:1 O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You. 2 May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry. 3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. 4 I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. 5 I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care. 6 You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths. 7 Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah 8 You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape. 9 My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You. 10 Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah 11 Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? 12 Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion? 13 But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You. 14 Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me? 15 From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. 16 Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. 17 All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side. 18 You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

89:1 I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations. 2 For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.” 3 You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant: 4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah 5 The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD— Your faithfulness as well— in the assembly of the holy ones. 6 For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD? 7 In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him. 8 O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You. 9 You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them. 10 You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm. 11 The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded. 12 North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name. 13 Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted. 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You. 15 Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O LORD, in the light of Your presence. 16 They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult. 17 For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted. 18 Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel. 19 You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people. 20 I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him. 21 My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him. 22 No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him. 23 I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him. 24 My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted. 25 I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers. 26 He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’ 27 I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. 28 I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast. 29 I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure. 30 If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments, 31 if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments, 32 I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes. 33 But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness. 34 I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips. 35 Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David— 36 his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun, 37 like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah 38 Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one. 39 You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust. 40 You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble. 41 All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors. 42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice. 43 You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle. 44 You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground. 45 You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah 46 How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire? 47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men! 48 What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah 49 Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David? 50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people— 51 how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one! 52 Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.

90:1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations. 2 Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God. 3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.” 4 For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night. 5 You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— 6 in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers. 7 For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. 9 For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh. 10 The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. 11 Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom. 13 Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants. 14 Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil. 16 May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children. 17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands— yes, establish the work of our hands!

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