Psalm 88:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ 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

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

Psalm 107:18

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; And they draw near unto the gates of death.

Psalm 107:26

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble.

Psalm 17:1

Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry; Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Psalm 77:2

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.

Isaiah 53:3

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