unfoldingWord_en_tn/psa/088/005.md

# I am abandoned among the dead

People treating the writer as if he were already dead is spoken of as if he were a corpse that they left unburied. Alternate translation: I am left alone as if I were dead" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# I am like the dead who lie in the grave

The writer feeling like people and God have abandoned him speaks about himself as if he were already a dead person lying in a grave. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

# the dead who lie

The nominal adjective "the dead" can be stated as an adjective. Alternate translation: "a dead person who lies" or "dead people who lie" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])

# about whom you care no more

"who no longer receive your care" or "people you have stopped caring about"

# they are cut off from your power

God no longer using his power to help dead people is spoken of as if God literally cut him off or removed him from his power. Alternate translation: "you no longer use your power to help them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])