Psalms 88:6

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

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In The King James Version

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

In Context

5My 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.

7Your wrath lies heavy upon me, waves of your anger roll over me. Selah

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Cross References

Psalms 69:15that the rushing flood may not drown me, that the deep may not swallow me up, nor the pit close her mouth upon me.

Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I call to you, Lord.

John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who believes in me should remain in the darkness.

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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