Psalms 88:6

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

7Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Psalms 69:15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I have cried to you, LORD.

Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

Lamentations 3:55I called on your name, LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.

John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not 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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