Psalms 88:6

Psalms 88:6 in other versions

• New International Version (NIV)You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You have laid me in the lowest pit, In darkness, in the depths.
• New Living Translation (NLT)You have thrown me into the lowest pit, into the darkest depths.

Context of Psalms 88:6

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. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. 8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Psalms 88:6 word by word

שַׁ֭תַּנִי בְּב֣וֹר תַּחְתִּיּ֑וֹת בְּ֝מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים בִּמְצֹלֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear

• Thou hast laidשִׁיתshîyth · to set: putH7896
• me in the lowestתַּחְתִּיtachtîy · lowerH8482
• pitבּוֹרbôr · pitH953
• in darknessמַחְשָׁךְmachshâk · darknessH4285
• in the deepsמְצוֹלָהmetsôlâh metsôlâh metsûlâh metsûlâh · depthH4688

Cross-references for Psalms 88:6

• Psalms 40:2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
• Psalms 86:13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
• Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
• 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.
• Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
• Lamentations 3:2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
• John 12:46I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
• Jude 1:6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
• Psalms 69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
• Psalms 130:1Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.

Commentaries on Psalms 88:6

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit - That is, I am as if I were thus laid; the deep grave seems now to lie so certainly before me, that it may be spoken of as if it were already my abode. The words rendered “lowest pit” mean literally the pit under, or beneath. The reference is to the sepulchre, as in Psalm 88:4. In darkness - The dark grave; the realms of the dead. See the notes at Job 10:21-22. In the deeps - The caverns; the deep places of the earth…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-7In his first complaint, the psalmist blames the Lord for his suffering. God’s overwhelming anger does not make sense to him. The phrase the darkest of the depths might refer to: the place of the dead (Psalm 143:3; see Lamentations 3:6), or the deep sea (Psalms 68:22; 69:1–2).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Similar figures for distress in Psa 63:9; 69:3.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 88:6

• Afflictions and Adversities

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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