With text by the great Madeleine L'Engle (Used with permission of  Harold Shaw Publisher), this piece is scored for three part Treble voices. Performed here by Matt Curtis - the Lishen Singers.

Trinity 18

PSALM 88: DAVID'S LAMENT
(OVER THE LOSS OF HIS FRIEND, JONATHAN)
Antiphon:
My friend and neighbor you have taken from me
And darkness is my only companion.
Oh, Lord, my God, my Savior,
by day and night I cry to you.
Hear my prayer. Hear my anger.
For I am full of rage, Hear my rage.
Hear my prayer, hear my plea.
Why have you rejected me?
My friend and neighbor you have taken from me
And darkness is my only companion.
Hear my prayer.
For I am full of woe.
For I am full of trouble.
My life is at the brink of the grave.
Beyond help.
Lost among the dead.
Forgotten, Hated.
Hear my cry.
Hear my prayer, hear my prayer.
My friend and neighbor you have taken from me,
And darkness is my only companion.
Hear my cry. Where is Your love?
Where is your kindness?
Oh Lord, Oh Lord,
Why have you rejected me?
My friend and neighbor you have taken from me,
And darkness is my only companion.

Psalm 88 was written as part of Dianna Dennis' Service of Grief and Healing, World AIDS Day, 1992, St Mark's Church, Philadelphia, PA USA

Copyright 1992 by Dianna Robin Dennis
Lisheen Press, IMRO
All rights reserved.

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