Psalm 88:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ For my being is filled with evils, And my life draws near to the grave.

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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

Job 33:22

And his being draws near the Pit, and his life to the destroyers.

Psalm 107:18

Their being loathed all food, And they drew near to the gates of death,

Psalm 107:26

They go up to the heavens, They go down to the depths; Their being is melted because of evil.

Psalm 17:1

Hear righteousness, יהוה, Listen to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, From lips without deceit.

Psalm 77:2

In the day of my distress I sought יהוה ; My hand was stretched out in the night And it did not cease, My being refused to be comforted.

Isaiah 53:3

despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and knowing sickness. And as one from whom the face is hidden, being despised, and we did not consider Him.