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Psalms 88:3
3I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death.
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.
- 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
1Lord, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you. 2May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry. I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death. 4I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength. 5I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.
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, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me?
- Psalms 22:11Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
- Psalms 69:17Do not hide your face from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.
- Psalms 77:2When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted.
- Psalms 143:3The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead.
- Job 6:2“If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.
- Matthew 26:37He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
- Mark 14:33He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.
- Psalms 107:18They loathed all food and drew near the gates of death.
- Job 33:22They draw near to the pit, and their 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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