Psalm 88:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For my soul is full of troubles: And my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For I am full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol (the place of the dead).

American Standard Version (1901)

For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

Common English Bible

because my whole being is filled with distress; my life is at the very brink of hell.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

Psalm 88:3 Cross References

Job 33:22

Their souls draw near the Pit and their lives to those who bring death.

Psalm 107:18

they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.

Psalm 107:26

They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their calamity;

Psalm 17:1

Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry; give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit.

Psalm 77:2

In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity, and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and we held him of no account.