Psalms 88:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and they are cut off from your hand.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נֶ֭חְשַׁבְתִּי עִם־י֣וֹרְדֵי ב֑וֹר הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כְּגֶ֣בֶר אֵֽין־אֱיָֽל׃

Transliteration

neḥšavtî with-yôrədê bôr hāyîtî like-gever without-ʾĕyāl

Grammar Details

• *neḥšavtî*: verb, Niphal perfect, 1st person singular - I am considered/counted
• *yôrədê*: participle, Qal, masculine, plural construct - those going down to
• *bôr*: noun, masculine, singular - pit/cistern/grave
• *hāyîtî*: verb, Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have become/been
• *gever*: noun, masculine, singular - man/strong man
• *ʾĕyāl*: noun, masculine, singular - strength/help

Word Meanings

• *neḥšavtî*: I am considered/counted/reckoned/regarded as
• *yôrədê*: those going down to/descending to
• *bôr*: pit/cistern/grave/dungeon
• *gever*: man/strong man/warrior/male
• *ʾĕyāl*: strength/help/vigor/power

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Cast 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.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Free among the dead{H8801)}, like the slain that lie{H8802)} in the grave, whom thou rememberest{H8804)} no more: and they are cut off{H8738)} from thy hand.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thou hast layed me in the lowest pytte, in ye darcknesse and in the depe.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

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

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I am free among the dead: like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue, whom thou remembrest no more, and are cut away from thy hande.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Set apart among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Cast 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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Cast 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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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.

• World English Bible (2000)

  set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 53:8 : 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
• Ps 31:22 : 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.
• Ps 88:16 : 16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
• Ps 136:23 : 23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures forever:
• Isa 14:9-9 : 9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they will speak and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? Have you become like us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you. 12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations!
• Isa 38:10-12 : 10 I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world. 12 My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.
• Gen 8:1 : 1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
• Gen 19:29 : 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the upheaval, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
• Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
• Job 11:10 : 10 If He passes by, and imprisons, or gathers together, then who can stop Him?
• Ps 31:12 : 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
• Ezek 32:18-32 : 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. 19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with those who help him: they have gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are all around him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is around her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. 24 There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living; yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are around him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain. 26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are around him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. 28 Yes, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain with the sword. 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid by those who were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. 30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, says the Lord GOD. 32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.