God’s Word Translation
Psalms 88:3
3My soul is filled with troubles, and my life comes closer to the grave.
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
1O Lord God, my savior, I cry out to you during the day and at night. 2Let my prayer come into your presence. Turn your ear to hear my cries. My soul is filled with troubles, and my life comes closer to the grave. 4I am numbered with those who go into the pit. I am like a man without any strength— 5abandoned with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves, like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your power.
Read all of Psalms 88Psalms 88:3 word by word
כִּֽי־שָֽׂבְעָ֣ה בְרָע֣וֹת נַפְשִׁ֑י וְחַיַּ֗י לִשְׁא֥וֹל הִגִּֽיעוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 88:3
- Psalms 88:14Why do you reject my soul, O Lord? Why do you hide your face from me?
- Psalms 22:11Do not be so far away from me. Trouble is near, and there is no one to help.
- Psalms 69:17I am in trouble, so do not hide your face from me. Answer me quickly!
- Psalms 77:2On the day I was in trouble, I went to the Lord for help. At night I stretched out my hands in prayer without growing tired. Yet, my soul refused to be comforted.
- Psalms 143:3The enemy has pursued me. He has ground my life into the dirt. He has made me live in dark places like those who have died long ago.
- Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed, if only my misery could be laid on the scales with it,
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by people. He was a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering. He was despised like one from whom people turn their faces, and we didn’t consider him to be worth anything.
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness. He has made me drink wormwood.
- Matthew 26:37He took Peter and Zebedee’s two sons with him. He was beginning to feel deep anguish.
- Mark 14:33He took Peter, James, and John with him and began to feel distressed and anguished.
- Psalms 107:18All food was disgusting to them, and they came near death’s gates.
- Job 33:22Their souls approach the pit. Their lives come close to those already dead.
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
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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
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