Psalms 88:5

cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,

6Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

Job 11:10If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?

Psalms 28:1To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.

Psalms 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes. Nevertheless thou heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.

Psalms 136:23who remembered us in our low estate, for his loving kindness [is] forever,

Isaiah 38:10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.

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 →

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