Psalms 88:5

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

4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
KJV
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
WEB
set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
ASV
Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.
DARBY
Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.
BLB
among the dead [set] free, like the slain lying down in the grave, whom You do not remember anymore, even they [who] are cut off from Your hand.
ÅB
frigitt[^2] som en av de døde, lik de ihjelslagne som ligger i graven, som du ikke mere kommer i hu, fordi de er skilt fra din hånd.
OTB
Forlatt blant de døde,
Som de drepte som ligger i graven,
Som du ikke lenger husker,
Og de er avskåret fra din hånd.
B1930
frigitt som en av de døde, lik de ihjelslagne som ligger i graven, som du ikke mere kommer i hu, fordi de er skilt fra din hånd. / < d.e. ikke lenger stående i din tjeneste.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 53:8

    He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

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  • Psalms 31:22

    For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

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  • Isaiah 14:9–12

    Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

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  • Psalms 136:23

    Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

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  • Job 6:9

    Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

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  • Job 11:10

    If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

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  • Genesis 8:1

    And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

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  • Psalms 88:16

    Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

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