Psalms 88:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:15 : 15 Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.
  • Ps 143:3 : 3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.
  • Ps 130:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.
  • Deut 32:22 : 22 For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.
  • Ps 40:2 : 2 He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
  • Lam 3:2 : 2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
  • Lam 3:55 : 55 I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
  • John 12:46 : 46 I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 88:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

    3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

    4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

    5 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.

  • Ps 88:7-8
    2 verses
    80%

    7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

    8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

  • 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Jonah 2:3-6
    4 verses
    79%

    3 In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

    4 For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

    5 And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

    6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

  • 3 O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.

  • 55 I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.

  • Ps 88:14-16
    3 verses
    76%

    14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

    15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

    16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

  • 13 For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

  • 7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

  • 2 My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

  • 1 <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.

  • 6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • 6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • 2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

  • 15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

  • 20 You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

  • 53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

  • 5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • 10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

  • 3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

  • 7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.

  • 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

  • 9 But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

  • 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 1 <Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

  • Ps 88:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

    12 May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

  • Isa 38:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

    18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

  • 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • 18 You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

  • Ps 69:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

    15 Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

  • 16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • 15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • 2 He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

  • 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

  • 8 They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.

  • 3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.