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You have removed my acquaintances far from me.
You have made me detestable[a] to them.
I am confined and cannot go out.
My eye languishes from misery.
I call on you, O Yahweh, every day;
I spread out my hands[b] to you.
10 Do you work wonders[c] for the dead?
Or do the departed spirits[d] rise up to praise you? Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:8 Hebrew “an abomination”
  2. Psalm 88:9 Hebrew “palms”
  3. Psalm 88:10 Hebrew “wonder”
  4. Psalm 88:10 Hebrew rephaim, sometimes translated “shades”; the weakened state of those who have died