Psalms 88:3

World English Bible (2000)

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

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  • Ps 107:18 : 18 Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.
  • Ps 107:26 : 26 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.
  • Ps 143:3-4 : 3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead. 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.
  • Isa 53:10-11 : 10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand. 11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
  • Lam 3:15-19 : 15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood. 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes. 17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity. 18 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh. 19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
  • Matt 26:37-39 : 37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me." 39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. 34 He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."
  • Job 6:2-4 : 2 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
  • Job 33:22 : 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
  • Ps 22:11-21 : 11 Don't be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. 13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring. 14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet. 17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me. 18 They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing. 19 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion's mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.
  • Ps 69:17-21 : 17 Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily! 18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies. 19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none. 21 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
  • Ps 77:2 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
  • Ps 88:14-15 : 14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

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    4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

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    6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

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  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

    4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

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    14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

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    16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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  • Job 30:16
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    5 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

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  • Job 10:1
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    3 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?

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    7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

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    6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

    7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

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  • Ps 38:17
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    17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

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    22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

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    53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.