New English Translation
Psalms 88:3
3For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.
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 who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you. 2Listen to my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help! For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol. 4They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man, 5adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.
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כִּֽי־שָֽׂבְעָ֣ה בְרָע֣וֹת נַפְשִׁ֑י וְחַיַּ֗י לִשְׁא֥וֹל הִגִּֽיעוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 88:3
- Psalms 88:14O Lord, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?
- Psalms 22:11Do not remain far away from me, for trouble is near and I have no one to help me.
- Psalms 69:17Do not ignore your servant, for I am in trouble! Answer me right away!
- Psalms 77:2In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.
- Psalms 143:3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
- Job 6:2“Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.
- Lamentations 3:15He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness. ו (Vav)
- Matthew 26:37He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became anguished and distressed.
- Mark 14:33He took Peter, James, and John with him, and became very troubled and distressed.
- Psalms 107:18They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.
- Job 33:22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.
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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