For the music director; according to the tune “Morning Doe;” 2 a psalm of David.
22:1 My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? 3
I groan in prayer, but help seems far away. 4
43:4 Then I will go 5 to the altar of God,
to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, 6
so that I express my thanks to you, 7 O God, my God, with a harp.
A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; 9 a well-written song 10 by Heman the Ezrachite.
88:1 O Lord God who delivers me! 11
By day I cry out
and at night I pray before you. 12
88:2 Listen to my prayer! 13
Pay attention 14 to my cry for help!
88:3 For my life 15 is filled with troubles
and I am ready to enter Sheol. 16