Psalms 87; Psalms 88

1 (86-1) <For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle.> The foundations thereof are the holy mountains:

2 (86-2) The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

3 (86-3) Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

4 (86-4) I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

5 (86-5) Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

6 (86-6) The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

7 (86-7) The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

1 (87-1) <A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite.> (87-2) O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.

2 (87-3) Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.

3 (87-4) For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

4 (87-5) I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

5 (87-6) Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

6 (87-7) They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

7 (87-8) Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

8 (87-9) Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

9 (87-10) My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

10 (87-11) Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?

11 (87-12) Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction?

12 (87-13) Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?

13 (87-14) But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.

14 (87-15) Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

15 (87-16) I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.

16 (87-17) Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.

17 (87-18) They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

18 (87-19) Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.