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            <div class="label">86</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 86</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A prayer of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.86.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.86.1"><span class="content">for I am poor and needy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.86.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.86.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Guard my life, for I am faithful to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.86.2"><span class="content">save your servant who trusts in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.86.2"><span class="content">You are my God; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.86.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">have mercy on me, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.86.3"><span class="content">for I call to you all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.86.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.86.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Bring joy to your servant, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.86.4"><span class="content">for I put my trust in you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.86.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.86.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You, Lord, are forgiving and good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.86.5"><span class="content">abounding in love to all who call to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.86.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.86.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Hear my prayer, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.86.6"><span class="content">listen to my cry for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.86.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.86.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When I am in distress, I call to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.86.7"><span class="content">because you answer me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.86.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.86.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Among the gods there is none like you, Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.86.8"><span class="content">no deeds can compare with yours.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.86.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All the nations you have made</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="content">will come and worship before you, Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="content">they will bring glory to your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.86.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For you are great and do marvelous deeds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.86.10"><span class="content">you alone are God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.86.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Teach me your way, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="content">that I may rely on your faithfulness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="content">give me an undivided heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="content">that I may fear your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.86.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.86.12"><span class="content">I will glorify your name forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.86.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For great is your love toward me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="content">you have delivered me from the depths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="content">from the realm of the dead.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Arrogant foes are attacking me, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="content">ruthless people are trying to kill me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="content">they have no regard for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.86.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.86.15"><span class="content">slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.86.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Turn to me and have mercy on me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">show your strength in behalf of your servant;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">save me, because I serve you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">just as my mother did.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.86.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Give me a sign of your goodness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.86.17"><span class="content">that my enemies may see it and be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.86.17"><span class="content">for you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have helped me and comforted me.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">87</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 87</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.87.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">He has founded his city on the holy mountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.87.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.87.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loves the gates of Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.87.2"><span class="content">more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.87.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.87.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Glorious things are said of you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.87.3"><span class="content">city of God:</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">87:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 6.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.87.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.87.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will record Rahab</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">87:4 </span><span class="ft">A poetic name for Egypt</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Babylon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.87.4"><span class="content">among those who acknowledge me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.87.4"><span class="content">Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">87:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.87.4"><span class="content">and will say, &#8216;This one was born in Zion.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">87:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;I will record concerning those who acknowledge me: / &#8216;This one was born in Zion.&#8217; / Hear this, Rahab and Babylon, / and you too, Philistia, Tyre and Cush.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.87.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.87.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Indeed, of Zion it will be said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.87.5"><span class="content">&#8220;This one and that one were born in her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.87.5"><span class="content">and the Most High himself will establish her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.87.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.87.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will write in the register of the peoples:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.87.6"><span class="content">&#8220;This one was born in Zion.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.87.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.87.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As they make music they will sing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.87.7"><span class="content">&#8220;All my fountains are in you.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">88</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 88</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 88:1-18 is numbered 88:2-19.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">mahalath leannoth.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Possibly a tune, &#8220;The Suffering of Affliction&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Heman the Ezrahite.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you are the God who saves me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="content">day and night I cry out to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May my prayer come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="content">turn your ear to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I am overwhelmed with troubles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="content">and my life draws near to death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I am counted among those who go down to the pit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="content">I am like one without strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I am set apart with the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">like the slain who lie in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">whom you remember no more,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">who are cut off from your care.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have put me in the lowest pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="content">in the darkest depths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your wrath lies heavily on me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="content">you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">88:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have taken from me my closest friends</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">and have made me repulsive to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">I am confined and cannot escape;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">my eyes are dim with grief.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">I call to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, every day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">I spread out my hands to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do you show your wonders to the dead?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="content">Do their spirits rise up and praise you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Is your love declared in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="content">your faithfulness in Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">88:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="content">or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I cry to you for help, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="content">in the morning my prayer comes before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do you reject me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="content">and hide your face from me?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">From my youth I have suffered and been close to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="content">I have borne your terrors and am in despair.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your wrath has swept over me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="content">your terrors have destroyed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All day long they surround me like a flood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="content">they have completely engulfed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.88.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You have taken from me friend and neighbor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.88.18"><span class="content">darkness is my closest friend.</span></span></div>
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