Psalms 88:6

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

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

In Context

5cast 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.

7Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Psalms 69:15Let not the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep shallow me up. And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O LORD.

Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.

Lamentations 3:55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.

John 12:46I have come a light into the world, so that every man who believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

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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