Psalms 88:3

For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up forever: 1 Thy truth shall be established in the heavens. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

In Context

2I will sing of thy mercies, O Lord, forever: 1 I will declare thy truth with my mouth to all generations. 1

4I made a covenant with my chosen ones, 1 I swore unto David my servant. 1

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Cross References

Job 6:2Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, 1 And take up my griefs in a balance together! 1

Psalms 17:1For the end, a Psalm of David the servant of the Lord; the words which he spoke to the Lord, even the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: and he said: 1

Psalms 88:14Thine is the mighty arm: 1 Let thy hand be strengthened, let thy right hand be exalted. 1

Isaiah 53:3But his form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; he was a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness, for his face is turned from us: he was dishonored, and not esteemed.

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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