Psalms 88:5
I am abandoned among the dead, lying like a corpse in the grave, forgotten and beyond your care.
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In Context
4I'm counted among the dying; a man with no strength.
6You have placed me in a deep pit, in the depths of darkness.
Cross References
Genesis 19:29When God destroyed the towns of the valley he didn't forget the promise he made Abraham, and he saved Lot from the destruction of the towns where Lot was living.
Job 11:10If God comes and imprisons someone, or assembles the court for judgment, who can stop him?
Psalms 28:1Lord, my rock, I'm calling out to you. Please listen to me! For if you don't respond, I'll be like those who go down into the grave.
Psalms 31:22Terrified I cried out, “I am being destroyed right in front of you!” But you heard my cry when I called out for you to help me.
Psalms 136:23He remembered us even in our humiliation. For his trustworthy love lasts forever.
Isaiah 38:10I said to myself, “Do I have to go to my death just as my life is going well? Why can't I count on the rest 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 →