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PSALM LXXXVIII. Sing this as the 13. Psalme.
[verse 2] IEhovah, thou the God of my salvation:
before thee, day and night, I make-clamation.
[verse 3] Fore thee, let come my pray'r: unto my clamour-shril,
bow thine ear. [verse 4] For with ev'ls my soul it hath the fill:
my life, draws neer to hell.
[verse 5] I counted am, with them that do go-down the pit:
I am, as man that hath ability no whit.
[verse 6] Even free, among the dead: as slain, in grave that lay;
whom thou dost mind no more: because from thy hand, they
have quite been cut-away
[verse 7] Thou putst me, in the pit of nether-places-steep:
in obscure-darknesses, in gulfy-places-deep.
[verse 8] Thy wrathful-fervency, upon me firm doth-stay:
and with thy billows all, upon me thou dost lay-
affliction, Selah.
[verse 9] My known-friends thou hast put-far, from me: hast me set
lothsome to them: shut-up, that out I cannot get.
[verse 10] Through mine afflictiō, mine ey doth pine-away:
thee doe I call upon Jehovah, all the day:
my palms to thee display.
[verse 11] Wilt thou do to the dead a work-miraculous?
or shall they rise-again that are deceast from us?
shal they laud thee, Selah? [verse 12] Shal thy benigne-mer∣cie
be told within the grave? or thy fidelity,
in forlorn-miserie?
[verse 13] Shal thy work-marveilous be in the darknesse known?
and thy justice, within land of oblivion?
[verse 14] But I, doe unto thee Jehovah make my cry:
my prayer also, shall even in the morn-early
prevent-thee-speedily.
[verse 15] Wherefore dost thou reject my soul, ô Jehovah?
thy countenance frō me, why dost thou hid-away?
[verse 16] I poor-afflicted am, and breathing-out the sp'rit,
even from my youth: I bear, thy fears-that-doe-affright,
I am in doubtful-plight.