{Psa 131, 133, 138-145, 88-89 ^**}

    ^88:1 O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you. ^88:2 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Incline your ear to my cry.

    ^88:3 Because my soul is full of troubles and my life draws near to Sheol. ^88:4 I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help, ^88:5 cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more and they are cut off from your hand.

    ^88:6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the depths. ^88:7 Your wrath lays hard upon me and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

    ^88:8 You have put my acquaintances far from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up and I cannot come forth.

    ^88:9 My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon you, O Jehovah, I have spread forth my hands to you.

    ^88:10 Will you show wonders to the dead? Shall those who are deceased arise and praise you? Selah.

    ^88:11 Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in destruction? ^88:12Shall your wonders be known in the dark and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

    ^88:13 But to you, O Jehovah, I have cried and in the morning my prayer will come before you. ^88:14Jehovah, why do you cast off my soul? Why do you hide your face from me? ^88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors I am confounded. ^88:16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

    ^88:17 They came all around me like water all the day long. They encompassed me around together.^88:18 You have put beloved and friend far from me and my acquaintances into darkness.