Psalms 88:3
(88-4) For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
In Context
2(88-3) Let my prayer come before Thee, incline Thine ear unto my cry.
4(88-5) I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am become as a man that hath no help;
Cross References
Job 6:2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!
Psalms 17:1A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer from lips without deceit.
Psalms 69:17(69-18) And hide not Thy face from Thy servant; for I am in distress; answer me speedily.
Psalms 88:14(88-15) LORD, why castest Thou off my soul? Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?
Psalms 107:26They mounted up to the heaven, they went down to the deeps; their soul melted away because of trouble;
Isaiah 53:3He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and 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 →