Psalms 88:7

They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

In Context

6free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.

8Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

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Cross References

Job 10:16And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning thou tormentest me wonderfully.

Psalms 38:1A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.

Psalms 69:3I stick fast in the mire of the deep: and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

Psalms 102:10For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

Jonah 2:4And thou hast cast me forth into the deep in the heart of the sea, and a flood hath compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed over me.

Romans 2:5But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God.

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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