Psalms 88:5
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I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
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By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.