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    let my prayer reach you!
Turn your ear to my outcry
    because my whole being[a] is filled with distress;
    my life is at the very brink of hell.[b]

I am considered as one of those plummeting into the pit.
    I am like those who are beyond help,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:3 Or soul, also in 88:14
  2. Psalm 88:3 Heb Sheol

May my prayer come before you;
    turn your ear to my cry.

I am overwhelmed with troubles(A)
    and my life draws near to death.(B)
I am counted among those who go down to the pit;(C)
    I am like one without strength.(D)

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