Psalms 88:3
For my soule is filled with euils, and my life draweth neere to the graue.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 thy presence: incline thine eare vnto my cry.
4I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:
Cross References
Job 6:2Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.
Psalms 17:1The prayer of Dauid. Heare the right, O Lord, consider my crye: hearken vnto my prayer of lips vnfained.
Psalms 69:17And hide not thy face from thy seruant, for I am in trouble: make haste and heare me.
Psalms 88:14Lord, why doest thou reiect my soule, and hidest thy face from me?
Psalms 107:26They mount vp to the heauen, and descend to ye deepe, so that their soule melteth for trouble.
Isaiah 53:3He is despised and reiected of men: he is a man full of sorowes and hath experience of infirmities: we hidde as it were our faces from him: he was despised and we esteemed him not.
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 →