Psalms 88
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1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
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2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
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3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
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4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
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5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
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6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
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8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
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9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
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10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
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11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
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12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
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13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
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14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
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15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
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16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
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17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
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18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
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Psalms 88:1
Isaiah 12:2Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOV...Psalms 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, a...Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though...Psalms 86:3Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.1 Kings 4:31For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol,...
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Psalms 31:2Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an ho...Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.Psalms 79:11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of...Psalms 141:1LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry un...1 Kings 8:31¶ If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cau...
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Psalms 107:18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of de...Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.Isaiah 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:...Psalms 88:14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?Psalms 69:17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
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Psalms 28:1Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be sile...Psalms 31:12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.Psalms 143:7Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I b...2 Corinthians 1:9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourse...2 Corinthians 13:4For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God....
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Isaiah 53:8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation...Psalms 31:22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou h...Genesis 19:29¶ And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God reme...Isaiah 38:10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am...Psalms 31:12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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Psalms 69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let...Psalms 86:13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowes...John 12:46I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abid...Psalms 143:3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the groun...Psalms 40:2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my f...
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Psalms 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy bi...Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my...Romans 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath aga...1 Peter 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead...Psalms 38:1O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
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Psalms 31:11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and...John 15:23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.Isaiah 49:7Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man d...Jeremiah 32:2For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet...Zechariah 11:8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their...
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Job 11:13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;Psalms 38:10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also...Psalms 86:3Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.Psalms 143:6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty l...Psalms 42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Wh...
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Psalms 6:5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee t...Isaiah 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and...Psalms 30:9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust prai...Isaiah 38:18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go dow...1 Corinthians 15:52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shal...
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Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.Job 21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought for...Matthew 7:13¶ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, th...Romans 9:22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured wit...Psalms 73:18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into dest...
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Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neithe...Psalms 31:12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.Ecclesiastes 8:10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy...Matthew 8:12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there sha...Psalms 88:5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest...
Cross References
Psalms 88:1
Isaiah 12:2Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOV...Psalms 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, a...Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though...Psalms 86:3Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.1 Kings 4:31For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol,...
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Psalms 31:2Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an ho...Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.Psalms 79:11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of...Psalms 141:1LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry un...1 Kings 8:31¶ If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cau...
Psalms 88:3
Psalms 107:18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of de...Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.Isaiah 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:...Psalms 88:14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?Psalms 69:17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
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Psalms 28:1Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be sile...Psalms 31:12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.Psalms 143:7Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I b...2 Corinthians 1:9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourse...2 Corinthians 13:4For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God....
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Isaiah 53:8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation...Psalms 31:22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou h...Genesis 19:29¶ And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God reme...Isaiah 38:10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am...Psalms 31:12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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Psalms 69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let...Psalms 86:13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowes...John 12:46I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abid...Psalms 143:3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the groun...Psalms 40:2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my f...
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Psalms 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy bi...Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my...Romans 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath aga...1 Peter 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead...Psalms 38:1O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Psalms 88:8
Psalms 31:11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and...John 15:23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.Isaiah 49:7Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man d...Jeremiah 32:2For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet...Zechariah 11:8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their...
Psalms 88:9
Job 11:13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;Psalms 38:10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also...Psalms 86:3Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.Psalms 143:6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty l...Psalms 42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Wh...
Psalms 88:10
Psalms 6:5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee t...Isaiah 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and...Psalms 30:9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust prai...Isaiah 38:18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go dow...1 Corinthians 15:52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shal...
Psalms 88:11
Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.Job 21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought for...Matthew 7:13¶ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, th...Romans 9:22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured wit...Psalms 73:18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into dest...
Psalms 88:12
Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neithe...Psalms 31:12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.Ecclesiastes 8:10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy...Matthew 8:12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there sha...Psalms 88:5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest...