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Psalms 88:3

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

KJV

Quoniam dixisti : In æternum misericordia ædificabitur in cælis ; præparabitur veritas tua in eis.

Vulgate

ὅτι εἶπας Εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἔλεος οἰκοδομηθήσεται, ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς ἑτοιμασθήσεται ἡ ἀλήθειά σου·

LXX

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

ASV

תָּב֣וֹא לְ֭/פָנֶי/ךָ תְּפִלָּתִ֑/י הַטֵּֽה אָ֝זְנְ/ךָ֗ לְ/רִנָּתִֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָזְנֵ֣י
'zny
noun · 188×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
י
y
noun · 77×
נָטִ֤יתִי
ntyty
verb · 216×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
רִנָּֽה
rnh
noun · 33×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 53:3 — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
  • Isa 53:10 — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall
  • Job 6:2 — Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
  • Job 17:1 — My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
  • Job 33:22 — Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
  • John 12:27 — Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
  • Lam 3:15 — He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
  • Mark 14:33 — And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
  • Matt 26:37 — And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
  • Ps 18:5 — The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
  • Ps 69:17 — And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
  • Ps 77:2 — In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
  • Ps 77:3 — I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Ps 88:14 — LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
  • Ps 107:18 — Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
  • Ps 107:18 — Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
  • Ps 107:26 — They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
  • Ps 143:3 — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.