Parallel Verses
Amplified
For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Holman Bible
and my life is near Sheol.
International Standard Version
For my life is filled with troubles as I approach Sheol.
A Conservative Version
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
American Standard Version
For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
Bible in Basic English
For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
Darby Translation
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
Julia Smith Translation
For my soul was filled with evils, and my life touched upon hades.
King James 2000
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near unto the grave.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol.
Modern King James verseion
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near the grave.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For my soul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell.
NET Bible
For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.
New Heart English Bible
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
The Emphasized Bible
For my soul, is sated with misfortunes, And, my life - unto Hades, hath drawn near;
Webster
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.
World English Bible
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
Youngs Literal Translation
For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 88:3
Prayers for Psalm 88:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Of Desperation
2
Let my prayer come before You and enter into Your presence;
Incline Your ear to my cry!
For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave);
I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:18
They detested all kinds of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.
Job 6:2-4
“Oh, that my grief could actually be weighed
And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!
Job 33:22
“Then his soul draws near to the pit [of destruction],
And his life to those who bring death (the destroyers).
Psalm 22:11-21
Do not be far from me, for trouble is near;
And there is no one to help.
Psalm 69:17-21
Do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in distress; answer me quickly.
Psalm 77:2
In the day of my trouble I [desperately] sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was
My soul refused to be comforted.
Psalm 88:14-15
O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?
Psalm 107:26
They went up toward the heavens [on the crest of the wave], they went down again to the depths [of the watery trough];
Their courage melted away in their misery.
Psalm 143:3-4
For the enemy has persecuted me,
He has crushed my life down to the ground;
He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief;
And like One from whom men hide their faces
He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him.
Isaiah 53:10-11
Yet the Lord was
To crush Him,
If
He shall see His [spiritual] offspring,
He shall prolong His days,
And the will (good pleasure) of the Lord shall succeed and prosper in His hand.
Lamentations 3:15-19
He has filled me with bitterness;
He has made me drunk with wormwood (bitterness).
Matthew 26:37-39
And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John], He began to be grieved and greatly distressed.
Mark 14:33-34
He took Peter and James and John with Him, and He began to be deeply distressed and troubled [extremely anguished at the prospect of what was to come].