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Psalms 88:3 · KJV

“For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.”

— Psalms 88:3

Verse 2

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

Verse 4

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man {that hath} no strength:

Psalms 88 — Context

1

[A Song {or} Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day {and} night before thee: {for the sons: or, of the sons} {Maschil...: or, A Psalm of Heman the Ezrahite, giving instruction}

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. {from: or, by}

Cross References

Psalms 107:18

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

Lamentations 3:15-19

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}

Mark 14:33-34

And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;

Isaiah 53:3

He 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. {we hid...: or, he hid as it were his face from us: Heb. as an hiding of faces from him, or, from us}

Psalms 77:2

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. {sore: Heb. hand}

Psalms 143:3-4

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Psalms 69:17-21

And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. {hear...: Heb. make haste to hear me}

Psalms 88:14-15

LORD, why castest thou off my soul? {why} hidest thou thy face from me?

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