King James Version
Psalms 88:3
3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Psalms 88:3 in other versions
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For my life is full of troubles, and death draws near.
Context of Psalms 88:3
1O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and 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 unto the grave. 4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Read all of Psalms 88Psalms 88:3 word by word
כִּֽי־שָֽׂבְעָ֣ה בְרָע֣וֹת נַפְשִׁ֑י וְחַיַּ֗י לִשְׁא֥וֹל הִגִּֽיעוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 88:3
- Psalms 88:14Lord, why 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: hear me speedily.
- Psalms 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
- Psalms 143:3For 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.
- Job 6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- 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.
- Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
- Matthew 26:37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
- Mark 14:33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
- Psalms 107:18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
- Job 33:22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, 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
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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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