Psalms 88:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־שָֽׂבְעָ֣ה בְרָע֣וֹת נַפְשִׁ֑י וְ֝חַיַּ֗י לִשְׁא֥וֹל הִגִּֽיעוּ׃

Transliteration

For-śāvəʿâ with-rāʿôt napšî and-ḥayyay to-šəʾôl higgîʿû

Grammar Details

*śāvəʿâ*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - is full/satisfied
*rāʿôt*: noun, feminine, plural - evils/troubles
*napšî*: noun, feminine, singular with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*ḥayyay*: noun, masculine, plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my life
*šəʾôl*: noun, feminine, singular - Sheol/grave/underworld
*higgîʿû*: verb, Hiphil perfect, 3rd person plural - they have approached/reached

Word Meanings

*śāvəʿâ*: is full/satisfied/satiated/had enough
*rāʿôt*: evils/troubles/calamities/distresses
*napšî*: my soul/life/self/being
*šəʾôl*: Sheol/grave/underworld/place of the dead
*higgîʿû*: they have approached/reached/touched/arrived at

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Ps 28:1 : 1 [ A Psalm of David.] Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Ps 143:7 : 7 Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; My spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
Isa 38:17-18 : 17 Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Ezek 26:20 : 20 then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.
Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
Rom 5:6 : 6 For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.
2 Cor 1:9 : 9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
2 Cor 13:4 : 4 for {G2532} he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.
Ps 30:9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Ps 31:12 : 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Ps 109:22-24 : 22 For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me. 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

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Ps 88:3
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3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
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5Cast 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.
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Isa 38:10-12
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10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Ps 143:3-4
2 verses
75%
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
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Ps 88:14-16
3 verses
75%
14Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?
15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
Ps 22:14-15
2 verses
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14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
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Ps 38:6
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6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Ps 31:10
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10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Ps 143:7
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7Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; My spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
Ps 31:12
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12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Ps 88:8
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8Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Job 30:19
73%
19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Lam 3:6
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6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Job 17:1
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1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.
Jonah 2:4-6
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73%
4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
Ps 28:1
73%
1[ A Psalm of David.] Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Ps 142:4
73%
4Look on [my] right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.
Ps 38:8
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8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Ps 116:3
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3The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Ps 22:6
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Ps 38:17
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17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
Ps 38:10
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Ps 55:4
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4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Ps 102:11
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11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Ps 69:2
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2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Lam 3:18
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18And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
Ps 30:3
72%
3O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Lam 3:53-54
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53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
54Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Ps 38:4
71%
4For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Ps 18:5
71%
5The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
Lam 1:14
71%
14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
Job 17:16
71%
16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
Ps 30:9
71%
9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Job 17:13
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13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Job 30:28
71%
28I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
2 Sam 22:6
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6The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
Ps 40:12
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12For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.
Job 30:16
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16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job 14:13
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13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Isa 38:18
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18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.