Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
In Context
2Let my prayer enter into thy presence. Incline thine ear to my cry.
4I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,
Cross References
Job 6:2O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Psalms 17:1Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry. Give ear to my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.
Psalms 69:17and hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily.
Psalms 88:14LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?
Psalms 107:26They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as him from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:2-10
Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. 1 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in… Read the whole commentary →