For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.(A)
I am counted among those going down to the Pit.(B)
I am like a man without strength,(C)
abandoned[a] among the dead.
I am like the slain lying in the grave,(D)
whom you no longer remember,
and who are cut off from your care.[b](E)

You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,
in the darkest places, in the depths.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 88:5 Or set free
  2. 88:5 Or hand

He has made me dwell in darkness
like those who have been dead for ages.(A)

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