Psalms 88:3
For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
In Context
2My prayer cometh in before Thee, Incline Thine ear to my loud cry,
4I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, I have been as a man without strength.
Cross References
Job 6:2O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
Psalms 17:1A Prayer of David. Hear, O Jehovah, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit.
Psalms 69:17And hide not Thy face from Thy servant, For I am in distress — haste, answer me.
Psalms 88:14Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me.
Psalms 107:26They go up [to] the heavens, they go down [to] the depths, Their soul in evil is melted.
Isaiah 53:3He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is 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 →