Raise Me Up! For I'm Still Living (Personal)

RAISE  ME  UP!  FOR  I’m  STILL  LIVING

Psalm 88:1-15; Psalm 41:10

LORD, I have called daily upon You

I have stretched out my hands to You

Will You work wonders for the dead?

Oh, raise me up! For I’m still living

LORD, why do You cast off my soul?

Why do You hide Your face from me?

I have been afflicted

And ready to die from my youth

I suffer Your terrors, I am distraught

But I also know that it is good for me to draw near to God

So I have put my trust in You

That I may declare all Your works

To all who are living

To all who are living

Oh, raise me up! For I’m still living...

Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave?

Or Your faithfulness in the place of destruction?

Shall Your wonders be known in the dark?

Oh, raise me up! For I’m still living

LORD, why do You cast off my soul?

Why do You hide Your face from me?

I have been afflicted

And ready to die from my youth

I suffer Your terrors, I am distraught

But I also know that it is good for me to draw near to God

So I have put my trust in You

That I may declare all Your works

To all who are living

To all who are living

Oh, raise me up! For I’m still living...

Shall the dead arise and praise You, O YAH?

Shall Your mercy be declared in the grave?

In the land of forgetfulness - Your righteousness?

Oh, raise me up! For I’m still living 

LORD, why do You cast off my soul?

Why do You hide Your face from me?

I have been afflicted

And ready to die from my youth

I suffer Your terrors, I am distraught

But I also know that it is good for me to draw near to God

So I have put my trust in You

That I may declare all Your works

To all who are living

To all who are living

Oh, raise me up! For I’m still living...

2024

PSALM   88  (KJV)

1  O YAHUAH of my salvation, I have cried day and night before Thee:

² Let my prayer come before Thee: incline Thine ear unto my cry;

³ For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

⁴ I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

⁵ Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom Thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from Thy hand.

⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

⁷ Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and Thou hast afflicted me with all Thy waves. 

⁸ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

⁹ Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon Thee, I have stretched out my hands unto Thee.

¹⁰ Wilt Thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise Thee? Selah.

¹¹ Shall Thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or Thy faithfulness in destruction?

¹² Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark? and Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³ But unto Thee have I cried, O YAHUAH; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent Thee.

¹⁴ LORD, why castest Thou off my soul? why hidest Thou Thy face from me?

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer Thy terrors I am distracted.

PSALM   41  (KJV)

¹⁰ But Thou, O YAHUAH, be merciful unto me, and raise me up! ....

(edite mine)