Psalms 88:5

I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

Job 11:10If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

Psalms 28:1To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

Psalms 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

Psalms 136:23He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.

Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

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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