Psalms 88:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

For my soule is filled with euils, and my life draweth neere to the graue.

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  • Ps 107:18 : 18 Their soule abhorreth al meat, and they are brought to deaths doore.
  • Ps 107:26 : 26 They mount vp to the heauen, and descend to ye deepe, so that their soule melteth for trouble.
  • Ps 143:3-4 : 3 For the enemie hath persecuted my soule: he hath smitten my life downe to the earth: he hath layde me in the darkenes, as they that haue bene dead long agoe: 4 And my spirit was in perplexitie in me, and mine heart within me was amased.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and reiected of men: he is a man full of sorowes and hath experience of infirmities: we hidde as it were our faces from him: he was despised and we esteemed him not.
  • Isa 53:10-11 : 10 Yet the Lord would breake him, and make him subiect to infirmities: when hee shall make his soule an offring for sinne, he shall see his seede and shall prolong his dayes, and the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 Hee shall see of the trauaile of his soule, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many: for hee shall beare their iniquities.
  • Lam 3:15-19 : 15 He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes. 17 Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie, 18 And I saide, My strength & mine hope is perished from the Lord, 19 Remembring mine affliction, & my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.
  • Matt 26:37-39 : 37 And hee tooke vnto him Peter, and the two sonnes of Zebedeus, and began to waxe sorowfull, and grieuously troubled. 38 Then sayde Iesus vnto them, My soule is very heauie, euen vnto the death: tarie yee here, and watch with me. 39 So hee went a litle further, and fell on his face, and praied, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup passe from me: neuerthelesse, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And hee tooke with him Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and hee began to be troubled, and in great heauinesse, 34 And saide vnto them, My soule is very heauie, euen vnto the death: tarie here, and watch.
  • Job 6:2-4 : 2 Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance. 3 For it woulde be nowe heauier then the sande of the sea: therefore my wordes are swallowed vp. 4 For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.
  • Job 33:22 : 22 So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life to the buriers.
  • Ps 22:11-21 : 11 Be not farre from me, because trouble is neere: for there is none to helpe me. 12 Many yong bulles haue compassed me: mightie bulles of Bashan haue closed me about. 13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon. 14 I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels. 15 My strength is dryed vp like a potsheard, and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete. 17 I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me. 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture. 19 But be thou not farre off, O Lorde, my strength: hasten to helpe me. 20 Deliuer my soule from the sword: my desolate soule from the power of the dogge. 21 Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
  • Ps 69:17-21 : 17 And hide not thy face from thy seruant, for I am in trouble: make haste and heare me. 18 Draw neere vnto my soule and redeeme it: deliuer me because of mine enemies. 19 Thou hast knowen my reproofe and my shame, and my dishonour: all mine aduersaries are before thee. 20 Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none. 21 For they gaue me gall in my meate, and in my thirst they gaue me vineger to drinke.
  • Ps 77:2 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort.
  • Ps 88:14-15 : 14 Lorde, why doest thou reiect my soule, and hidest thy face from me? 15 I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.

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    4I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:

    5Free among the dead, like the slaine lying in the graue, whome thou remembrest no more, and they are cut off from thine hand.

    6Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit, in darkenes, and in the deepe.

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    3When the snares of death copassed me, and the griefes of the graue caught me: when I founde trouble and sorowe.

    4Then I called vpon the Name of the Lord, saying, I beseech thee, O Lord, deliuer my soule.

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    3For the enemie hath persecuted my soule: he hath smitten my life downe to the earth: he hath layde me in the darkenes, as they that haue bene dead long agoe:

    4And my spirit was in perplexitie in me, and mine heart within me was amased.

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    14Lorde, why doest thou reiect my soule, and hidest thy face from me?

    15I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.

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    9Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lorde: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soule and my bellie are consumed with griefe.

    10For my life is wasted with heauinesse, and my yeeres with mourning: my strength faileth for my paine, and my bones are consumed.

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    16Therefore my soule is nowe powred out vpon me, and the dayes of affliction haue taken holde on me.

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    5The sorowes of the graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertooke me.

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    2Let my prayer enter into thy presence: incline thine eare vnto my cry.

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    6The sorowes of the graue compassed mee about: the snares of death ouertooke mee.

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    4Mine heart trembleth within mee, and the terrours of death are fallen vpon me.

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    1My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, & wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.

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    3My soule is also sore troubled: but Lorde how long wilt thou delay?

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    7Heare me speedily, O Lorde, for my spirit fayleth: hide not thy face from me, els I shall be like vnto them that go downe into the pit.

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    6I am bowed, and crooked very sore: I goe mourning all the day.

    7For my reines are full of burning, and there is nothing sound in my flesh.

    8I am weakened and sore broken: I roare for the very griefe of mine heart.

    9Lorde, I powre my whole desire before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.

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    6I went downe to the bottome of the moutaines: the earth with her barres was about me for euer, yet hast thou brought vp my life from the pit, O Lorde my God.

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    2Many say to my soule, There is no helpe for him in God. Selah.

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    18Draw neere vnto my soule and redeeme it: deliuer me because of mine enemies.

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    3O Lorde, thou hast brought vp my soule out of the graue: thou hast reuiued me from them that goe downe into the pit.

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    12For innumerable troubles haue compassed mee: my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me, that I am not able to looke vp: yea, they are moe in nomber then the heares of mine head: therefore mine heart hath failed me.

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    20Behold, O Lorde, howe I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am ful of heauinesse: the sword spoyleth abroad, as death doeth at home.

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    9Therefore they that seeke my soule to destroy it, they shall goe into the lowest partes of the earth.

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    4For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head, and as a weightie burden they are too heauie for me.

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    11Quicken me, O Lord, for thy Names sake, and for thy righteousnesse bring my soule out of trouble.

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    22Let al their wickednes come before thee: do vnto them, as thou hast done vnto me, for all my transgressions: for my sighes are many, & mine heart is heauy.

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    2I powred out my meditation before him, and declared mine affliction in his presence.

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    53They haue shut vp my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.