Psalms 88:3
I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I swore to David my servant. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
In Context
Cross References
Job 6:2Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!
Psalms 17:1I will love you, O Lord, my strength. 1
Psalms 88:14Justice and judgment are the establishment of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face. 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 →