{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/88","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T05:48:47.671Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":88,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":87,"nextChapter":89,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":18},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear to my cry;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But to you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 88 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 88](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/88)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/88 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}