Psalm 88:6

New International Reader's Version

It’s as if you have put me deep down in the grave. It’s as if you have put me in that deep, dark place.

Cross References

Psalm 130:1

Lord, I cry out to you because I’m suffering so deeply.

Psalm 143:3

My enemies chase me. They crush me down to the ground. They make me live in the darkness like those who died long ago.

Psalm 40:2

I was sliding down into the pit of death, and he pulled me out. He brought me up out of the mud and dirt. He set my feet on a rock. He gave me a firm place to stand on.

Psalm 69:15

Don’t let the floods cover me. Don’t let the deep water swallow me up. Don’t let the grave close its mouth over me.

Psalm 86:13

Great is your love for me. You have kept me from going down into the place of the dead.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of those who do what is wrong is like deep darkness. They don’t know what makes them trip and fall.

Lamentations 3:2

He has driven me away. He has made me walk in darkness instead of light.

Lamentations 3:55

Lord, I called out to you. I called out from the bottom of the pit.

Jonah 2:4

I said, ‘I have been driven away from you. But I will look again toward your holy temple in Jerusalem.’

John 12:46

I have come into the world to be its light. So no one who believes in me will stay in darkness.

Deuteronomy 32:22

My anger will start a fire. It will burn all the way down to the kingdom of the dead. It will eat up the earth and its crops. It will set the base of the mountains on fire.

Jude 1:13

They are like wild waves of the sea. Their shame rises up like foam. They are like falling stars. God has reserved a place of very black darkness for them forever.

Jude 1:6

Some of the angels didn’t stay where they belonged. They didn’t keep their positions of authority. The Lord has kept those angels in darkness. They are held by chains that last forever. On judgment day, God will judge them.