Psalms 88:3

Psalms 88:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
• New International Version (NIV)I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near to the grave.

Context of Psalms 88:3

1Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day [and] in the night before thee. 2Let my prayer come before thee; incline thine ear unto my cry. For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol. 4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength: 5Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.

Psalms 88:3 word by word

כִּֽי־שָֽׂבְעָ֣ה בְרָע֣וֹת נַפְשִׁ֑י וְחַיַּ֗י לִשְׁא֥וֹל הִגִּֽיעוּ׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Psalms 88:3

• Psalms 88:14Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?
• Psalms 22:11Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
• Psalms 69:17And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: answer me speedily.
• Psalms 77:2In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.
• Psalms 143:3For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
• Job 6:2Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
• Isaiah 53:3He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom [men] hide their faces; — despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Lamentations 3:15He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
• Matthew 26:37And taking with [him] Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and deeply depressed.
• Mark 14:33And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and he began to be amazed and oppressed in spirit.
• Psalms 107:18Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death:
• Job 33:22And his soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

Commentaries on Psalms 88:3

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3For my soul is full of troubles - I am full of trouble. The word rendered as “full” means properly to satiate as with food; that is, when as much had been taken as could be. So he says here, that this trouble was as great as he could bear; he could sustain no more. He had reached the utmost point of endurance; he had no power to bear anymore. And my life draweth nigh unto the grave - Hebrew, to Sheol. Compare the notes at Isaiah 14:9; notes at Job…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-5The psalmist calls on the Lord for salvation.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. grave--literally, "hell" (Psa 16:10), death in wide sense.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 88:3

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Hell

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Commentaries on Psalms 88

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings