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. 87:7. They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. 87:8. Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me. 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: 87:10. My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee. 87:11. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee? 87:12. Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction? 87:13. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness? 87:14. But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee. 87:15. Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me? 87:16. I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled. 87:17. Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me. 87:18. They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together. 87:19. Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery. Psalms Chapter 88 Misericordias Domini. The perpetuity of the church of Christ, in consequence of the promise of God: which, notwithstanding, God permits her to suffer sometimes most grievous afflictions. 88:1. Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. 88:2. The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation. 88:3. For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them. 88:4. I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: 88:5. Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation. 88:6. The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints. 88:7. For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God? 88:8. God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him. 88:9. O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee. 88:10. Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof. 88:11. Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies. 88:12. Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: 88:13. The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: