Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
King James Version
In Context
2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Cross References
Job 6:2O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Psalms 17:1Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
Psalms 69:17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Psalms 88:14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Psalms 107:26They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Isaiah 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid 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 →