Psalms 88:3
Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
In Context
2O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.
4For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
Cross References
Job 6:2O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
Psalms 17:1The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.
Psalms 69:17Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Psalms 88:14But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.
Psalms 107:26They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.
Isaiah 53:3Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.
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 →