Verse 1

My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 88:3-5 : 3 For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol. 4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man, 5 adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.
• Isa 38:10-14 : 10 “I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’ 11 “I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. 12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life. 13 I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life. 14 Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O Lord, I am oppressed; help me!
• Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.
• Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
• Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 14 If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’
• Job 19:17 : 17 My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.
• Job 42:16 : 16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.