Psalms 88:4
For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
In Context
3Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.
5I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,
Cross References
Psalms 28:1A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalms 31:12I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.
Psalms 143:7Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
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.
Ezekiel 26:20And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee in the lowest parts of the earth, as places desolate of old, with them that are brought down into the pit, that thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the land of the living,
Romans 5:6For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?
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 →