Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
In Context
2Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.
4I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
Cross References
Job 6:2“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Psalms 17:1Hear, LORD, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
Psalms 69:17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
Psalms 88:14LORD, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
Psalms 107:26They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
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 →