Psalms 88:6

\88:5\My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5\88:4\I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

7\88:6\You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

Psalms 69:15\69:14\Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

Psalms 130:1A Song of the going up. Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.

Proverbs 4:19The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

Lamentations 3:55I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.

John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

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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