Psalm 88:3 {87:4}
Good News Translation
So many troubles have fallen on me that I am close to death.

New Revised Standard Version
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

Contemporary English Version
I am deeply troubled and close to death;

New American Bible
For my soul is filled with troubles; my life draws near to Sheol.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

soul

Psalm 88:14,15 Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me? . . .

Psalm 22:11-21 Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me. . . .

Psalm 69:17-21 And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily. . . .

Psalm 77:2 In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted:

Psalm 143:3,4 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old: . . .

Job 6:2-4 O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance. . . .

Isaiah 53:3,10,11 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. . . .

Lamentations 3:15-19 He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. . . .

Matthew 26:37-39 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad. . . .

Mark 14:33,34 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy. . . .

life

Psalm 107:18 Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.

Job 33:22 His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.

Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
2Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition. 3For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.4I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,…
Cross References
Job 17:1
My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.

Psalm 6:3
And my soul is troubled exceedingly: but thou, O Lord, how long?

Psalm 107:18
Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.

Psalm 107:26
They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.

Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Psalm 141:7
As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.

Psalm 88:2
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