Psalm 88:6 {87:7}
Good News Translation
You have thrown me into the depths of the tomb, into the darkest and deepest pit.

New Revised Standard Version
You have put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.

Contemporary English Version
You have put me in the deepest and darkest grave;

New American Bible
You plunge me into the bottom of the pit, into the darkness of the abyss.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

lowest

Psalm 40:2 And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

Psalm 86:13 For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

Deuteronomy 32:22 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

darkness

Psalm 143:3 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:

Proverbs 4:19 My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

Lamentations 3:2 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

John 12:46 I am come, a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in me may not remain in darkness.

Jude 1:6,13 And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day. . . .

deeps

Psalm 69:15 Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Psalm 130:1 A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord:

Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
5Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.7Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.…
Cross References
Psalm 69:15
Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Psalm 74:20
Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

Psalm 86:13
For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

Psalm 88:12
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?

Psalm 143:3
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:

Lamentations 3:6
Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.

Lamentations 3:55
Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

Ezekiel 26:20
And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee in the lowest parts of the earth, as places desolate of old, with them that are brought down into the pit, that thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the land of the living,

Psalm 88:5
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