Psalms 87:4
For my soul is filled with troubles, 1 And my life has drawn nigh to Hades. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
3Let my prayer come in before thee; 1 Incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord. 1
5I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; 1 I became as a man without help;
Cross References
2 Samuel 21:16And Ishbi, who was of the progeny of Rapha, and the head of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, who also was girded with a club, even he thought to smite David.
2 Kings 20:17Behold, the days come, that all things that are in thy house shall be taken, and all that thy fathers have treasured up until this day, to Babylon; and there shall not fail a word which the Lord has spoken.
Psalms 45:12The Lord of hosts is with us; 1 The God of Jacob is our helper.
Psalms 89:10As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; 1 And if men should be in strength, eighty years: 1 And the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; 1 For weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened. 1
Psalms 137:8O Lord, thou shalt recompense them on my behalf: 1 Thy mercy, O Lord, endures forever: 1 Overlook not the works of thy hands.
Isaiah 14:4And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
Matthew Henry on Psalms 87:2-4
The Glory of Zion. 1 His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. Some make the first words of the psalm to be part of the title; it is a psalm or song whose subject is the holy mountains—the temple built in Zion upon Mount Moriah. This is the foundation of the argument, or beginning of the psalm. Or we may suppose the psalmist had now the tabernacle or temple in view and was… Read the whole commentary →