Psalm 88:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For my soul is full of troubles: And my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For I am full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol (the place of the dead).

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

Common English Bible

³ because my whole being is filled with distress; my life is at the very brink of hell.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.

Psalm 88:3 Cross References

Psalm 107:18

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

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Psalm 107:26

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

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.

Job 33:22

His soul draws near the Pit, and his life to those who bring death.

Psalm 17:1

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