Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 88:13

"But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee." — Psalms 88:13 (ASV)

But to You ... —Better, But as for me, I, etc. The pronoun is emphatic. The speaker has not gone down to the land where all is silent and forgotten, and can therefore still cry to God, and send his prayer to meet (prevent, i.e., go to meet) the Divine Being who still has an interest in him. And this makes the expostulation of the next verses still stronger. Why, since the sufferer is still alive, is he forsaken, or seemingly forsaken, by the God of that covenant in which he still abides?