Psalm 88:3
Verse 3 of 18. The 88th of 150 chapters in Psalms, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
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.
6Thou 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.
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Psalm 88:3 in the World English Bible
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.Read Psalm 88:3 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Psalm 88:3
He cries out (v. 3): My soul is full of troubles; so Christ said, Now is my soul troubled; and, in his agony, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful even unto death, like the psalmist's here, for he says, My life draws nigh unto the grave.
Read Matthew Henry on Psalm 88:1–9: Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God.
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.