New King James Version
Psalms 88:3
3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near 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 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 out day and night before You. 2Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry. For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near to the grave. 4I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has no strength, 5Adrift among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And who are cut off from Your hand.
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 88:14Lord, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- Psalms 22:11Be not far from Me, For trouble is near; For there is none to help.
- Psalms 69:17And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in trouble; Hear me speedily.
- Psalms 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; My hand was stretched out in the night without ceasing; My soul refused to be comforted.
- Psalms 143:3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in darkness, Like those who have long been dead.
- Job 6:2“Oh, that my grief were fully weighed, And my calamity laid with it on the scales!
- Isaiah 53:3He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood.
- Matthew 26:37And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
- Mark 14:33And He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be troubled and deeply distressed.
- Psalms 107:18Their soul abhorred all manner of food, And they drew near to the gates of death.
- Job 33:22Yes, his soul draws near the Pit, And his life to the executioners.
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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