Psalms 88:5
Among the dead—free, || As pierced ones lying in the grave, || Whom You have not remembered anymore, || Indeed, they have been cut off by Your hand.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, || I have been as a man without strength.
6You have put me in the lowest pit, || In dark places, in depths.
Cross References
Genesis 19:29And it comes to pass, in God’s destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembers Abraham, and sends Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.
Job 11:10If He passes on, and shuts up, and assembles, || Who then reverses it?
Psalms 28:1BY DAVID. To You, O YHWH, I call, || My rock, do not be silent to me! Lest You are silent to me, || And I have been compared || With those going down to the pit.
Psalms 31:22And I have said in my haste, “I have been cut off from before Your eyes,” || But You have heard the voice of my supplications, || In my crying to You.
Psalms 136:23Who has remembered us in our lowliness, || For His kindness [is] for all time.
Isaiah 38:10“I said in the cutting off of my days, || I go to the gates of Sheol, || I have numbered the remnant 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 →