Psalms 88:5

My home is among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more cut off as they are from your hand.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4I am counted with those who go down to the pit; without strength am I.

6In the deepest pit you have put me, in shadows deep and dark.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:29God had remembered Abraham when he destroyed the cities of the plain and rescued Lot from the destruction.

Psalms 28:1Unto you, O Lord, do I cry; my rock, be not deaf to me: lest, through holding your peace, I become like those who go down to the pit.

Psalms 31:22For I had said in panic, “I am driven clean out of your sight.” But you heard my plea, when I cried to you for help.

Psalms 136:23Who remembered our low estate: for his kindness endures forever.

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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