My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Written by someone whose body and heart were giving out: God remains the strength of the heart when everything else fails.
Psalm 88:1-3
Psalm 88:1-3
O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
A psalm prayed from deep darkness that ends with no happy turn. It is in the Bible, so you can pray your darkness too.
KJVPsalm 88:1-3 in context
1O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Israel’s prayer book: songs of trust, lament, thanks and praise, many of them by David.
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