Psalm 88:1

88:1 O Lord God who delivers me!1

By day I cry out

and at night I pray before you.2

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1	tn Heb “O Lord God of my deliverance.” In light of the content of the psalm, this reference to God as the one who delivers seems overly positive. For this reason some emend the text to אַלֹהַי שִׁוַּעְתִּי (’alohay shivva’tiy, “[O Lord] my God, I cry out”). See v. 13.
2	tn Heb “[by] day I cry out, in the night before you.”