ESV Study Bible | English Standard Version

10 Who among you fears the Lord
and obeys a the voice of his servant?
b Let him who walks in darkness
and has no light
trust in the name of the Lord
and rely on his God.

88 O Lord, c God of my salvation;
I d cry out day and night before you.
 2 Let my prayer come before you;
e incline your ear to my cry!

 3 For my soul is full of troubles,
and f my life draws near to g Sheol.
 4 I am counted among those who h go down to the pit;
I am a man who has no strength,
 5 like one set loose among the dead,
like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom i you remember no more,
for they are j cut off from your hand.
 6 You have put me in k the depths of the pit,
in the l regions dark and m deep.
 7 Your wrath n lies heavy upon me,
and you overwhelm me with o all your waves. Selah

 8 You have caused p my companions to shun me;
you have made me q a horror [2] to them.
I am r shut in so that I cannot escape;
 9 s my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O Lord;
I t spread out my hands to you.
10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
u Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your v wonders known in w the darkness,
or your righteousness in the land of x forgetfulness?

13 But I, O Lord, cry y to you;
z in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14 O Lord, why a do you cast my soul away?
Why b do you hide your face from me?
15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. [3]
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
your c dreadful assaults destroy me.
17 They d surround me like a flood e all day long;
they f close in on me together.
18 You have caused g my beloved and my friend to shun me;
my companions have become darkness. [4]

77 I a cry aloud to God,
aloud to God, and he will hear me.
 2 b In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;
in c the night my d hand is stretched out without wearying;
my soul e refuses to be comforted.
 3 When I remember God, I f moan;
when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah

 4 You hold my eyelids open;
I am so g troubled that I cannot speak.

 7 “Will the Lord k spurn forever,
and never again l be favorable?
 8 Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
Are his m promises at an end for all time?
 9 n Has God forgotten to be gracious?
o Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

10 Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
to the years of the p right hand of the Most High.” [5]

 4 c Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
d yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’