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.
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Compare
- 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.
Read in contextPsalms 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextPsalms 136:23
Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Read in contextJob 6:9
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Read in contextJob 11:10
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
Read in contextGenesis 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;
Read in contextPsalms 88:16
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
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