Psalms 88:5
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
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
Cast 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.
Among the dead--free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.
My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
Cross References
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out …
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver …
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am …
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, …
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, …
For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst …
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the …
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot …