{
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "psalms",
    "chapter": 88
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 88,
    "bookSlug": "psalms",
    "bookCode": "PSA",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PSA-88:1",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.1",
        "text": "O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PSA-88:2",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.2",
        "text": "Let my prayer enter into thy presence; Incline thine ear unto my cry."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PSA-88:3",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.3",
        "text": "For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PSA-88:4",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.4",
        "text": "I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PSA-88:5",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.5",
        "text": "Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PSA-88:6",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.6",
        "text": "Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PSA-88:7",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.7",
        "text": "Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves.     Selah"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PSA-88:8",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.8",
        "text": "Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PSA-88:9",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.9",
        "text": "Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PSA-88:10",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.10",
        "text": "Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee?     Selah"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PSA-88:11",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.11",
        "text": "Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PSA-88:12",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.12",
        "text": "Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PSA-88:13",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.13",
        "text": "But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PSA-88:14",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.14",
        "text": "Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PSA-88:15",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.15",
        "text": "I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PSA-88:16",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.16",
        "text": "Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PSA-88:17",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.17",
        "text": "They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PSA-88:18",
        "verseRef": "Ps.88.18",
        "text": "Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.           Psalm 89  Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite."
      }
    ]
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "/v1/library/books/psalms/chapters/88",
    "book": "/v1/library/books/psalms/",
    "chapters": "/v1/library/books/psalms/chapters/",
    "library": "/v1/library/",
    "schema": "/v1/schema/book/"
  }
}