Psalms 88:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I am afflicted and ready to die{H8802)} from my youth up: while I suffer{H8804)} thy terrors I am distracted{H8799)}.

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Classic King James Version text presented with Strong's numbering to link English words to their underlying Hebrew and Greek terms. Prioritizes literal/formal correspondence while enabling original-language word study.

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High concordance with source wording
Well-suited for in-depth word studies and exegesis
Widely recognized and referenced KJV text

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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
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Referenced Verses

Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 7:11-16 : 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 17:1 : 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Job 17:11-16 : 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. 12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Ps 22:14-15 : 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Ps 73:14 : 14 For all the day long have I been plagued{H8803)}, and chastened every morning.
Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:10 : 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Zech 13:7 : 7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 88:16
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16Thy fierce wrath goeth over{H8804)} me; thy terrors have cut me off{H8768)}.
Ps 88:14
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14LORD, why castest thou off{H8799)} my soul? why hidest{H8686)} thou thy face from me?
Ps 55:4-5
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4My heart is sore pained{H8799)} within me: and the terrors of death are fallen{H8804)} upon me.
5Fearfulness and trembling are come{H8799)} upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed{H8762)} me.
Ps 88:3-4
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3For my soul is full{H8804)} of troubles: and my life draweth nigh{H8689)} unto the grave.
4I am counted{H8738)} with them that go down{H8802)} into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Ps 88:6-9
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6Thou hast laid{H8804)} me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7Thy wrath lieth hard{H8804)} upon me, and thou hast afflicted{H8765)} me with all thy waves. Selah.
8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance{H8794)} far{H8689)} from me; thou hast made{H8804)} me an abomination unto them: I am shut up{H8803)}, and I cannot come forth{H8799)}.
9Mine eye mourneth{H8804)} by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called{H8804)} daily upon thee, I have stretched out{H8765)} my hands unto thee.
Ps 38:8
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8I am feeble and sore broken{H8738)}: I have roared{H8804)} by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Ps 38:6
74%
6I am troubled; I am bowed down{H8804)} greatly; I go{H8765)} mourning{H8802)} all the day long.
Ps 116:3
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3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Job 30:15-16
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15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Lam 1:20
74%
20Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Ps 9:13
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13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Ps 31:9-10
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9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Ps 18:4-5
2 verses
73%
4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Ps 143:3-4
2 verses
73%
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Ps 22:14-15
2 verses
73%
14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Ps 38:17
73%
17For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Isa 38:12
73%
12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Ps 39:10
73%
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed{H8804)} by the blow of thine hand.
Ps 40:12
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12For innumerable evils have compassed{H8804)} me about: mine iniquities have taken hold{H8689)} upon me, so that I am not able{H8804)} to look up{H8800)}; they are more{H8804)} than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth{H8804)} me.
Ps 129:1-2
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1A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Ps 118:18
72%
18The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
Ps 73:14
72%
14For all the day long have I been plagued{H8803)}, and chastened every morning.
2 Sam 22:5-6
2 verses
72%
5When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
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Job 9:28
72%
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Ps 109:22
72%
22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Ps 25:16-17
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16Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
17The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Job 23:15
72%
15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
Ps 6:3
71%
3My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Lam 1:13-14
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71%
13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Job 17:1
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1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Ps 119:107
71%
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Lam 3:1
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1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Isa 38:10
71%
10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Ps 22:1
71%
1To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Ps 31:22
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22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Job 7:15
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15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.