Psalms 88:3

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, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2Let my prayer enter into thy presence; incline thine ear unto my cry: For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto Sheol. 4I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help: 5Cast off among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more; and they are cut off from thy hand.

Psalms 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 distress; answer me speedily.
• Psalms 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked 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 dark places, as those that have been long dead.
• Job 6:2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
• Isaiah 53:3He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
• Matthew 26:37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled.
• Mark 14:33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled.
• 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 pit, 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

Topics related to Psalms 88:3

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Hell

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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