Psalms 88:3
For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
In Context
4I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:
Cross References
Job 6:2I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance.
Psalms 17:1Unto the end. For David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke the words of this canticle to the Lord, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said:
Psalms 88:14Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.
Isaiah 53:3He is despised and the least among men, a man of sorrows who knows infirmity. And his countenance was hidden and despised. Because of this, we did not esteem 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 →