A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; 2 a well-written song 3 by Heman the Ezrachite.
88:1 O Lord God who delivers me! 4
By day I cry out
and at night I pray before you. 5
88:2 Listen to my prayer! 6
Pay attention 7 to my cry for help!
88:3 For my life 8 is filled with troubles
and I am ready to enter Sheol. 9
88:4 They treat me like 10 those who descend into the grave. 11
I am like a helpless man, 12
88:5 adrift 13 among the dead,
like corpses lying in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
and who are cut off from your power. 14