Old Testament
Psalms 87
Focused passage
Psalms 87:9-19
- Verse 9. Thou hast made my familiars far from me: they have put me abomination to themselves. I was delivered and came not forth:
- Verse 10. mine eyes languished for poverty. I cried to thee o Lord all the day: I stretched out my hands to thee.
- Verse 11. Wilt thou do marvels to the dead: or shall physicians raise to life, and they confess to thee?
- Verse 12. Shall any in the sepulchre declare thy mercy, and thy truth in perdition?
- Verse 13. Shall thy marvelous works be known in darkness: and thy justice in the land of oblivion.
- Verse 14. And I o Lord have cried to thee: and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
- Verse 15. Why doest thou, o Lord, reject my prayer: turnest away thy face from me?
- Verse 16. I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted, humbled, and troubled.
- Verse 17. Thy wraths have passed upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.
- Verse 18. They have compassed me as water all the day: they compassed me together.
- Verse 19. Thou hast made friend, and neighbour far from me and my familiars because of misery.