Psalms 88:6
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.
You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
Cross References
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth …
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness …
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains …
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me …
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her …
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon …
I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.