Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 88 connects to 10 cross-references. A Korahite lament of Heman the Ezrahite, one of the darkest psalms in the Psalter, expressing unrelenting suffering and divine abandonment. Unlike most laments it contains no turn toward confidence or praise. The psalmist is counted among those going to …
Other Translations
For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.
For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
Cross References
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God …
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant …
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul …
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it …
And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very …
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me …