Psalms 88:3
\88:2\Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
In Context
2\88:1\O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
4\88:3\For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
Cross References
Job 6:2If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
Psalms 17:1A Prayer. Of David. Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.
Psalms 69:17\69:16\Give an answer to my words, O Lord; for your mercy is good: be turned to me, because of your great pity.
Psalms 88:14\88:13\But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.
Psalms 107:26The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.
Isaiah 53:3Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
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 →