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12 Are your amazing deeds experienced[a] in the dark region,[b]
or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?[c]
13 As for me, I cry out to you, O Lord;
in the morning my prayer confronts you.
14 O Lord, why do you reject me,
and pay no attention to me?[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:12 tn Heb “known.”
  2. Psalm 88:12 tn Heb “darkness,” here a title for Sheol.
  3. Psalm 88:12 tn Heb “forgetfulness.” The noun, which occurs only here in the OT, is derived from a verbal root meaning “to forget.”sn The rhetorical questions in vv. 10-12 expect the answer, “Of course not!”
  4. Psalm 88:14 tn Heb “[why] do you hide your face from me?”