Psalms 88:6
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5 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.
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.
8 Thou 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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
- KJV
- Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- WEB
- You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
- ASV
- Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
- DARBY
- Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
- BLB
- You have set me in the lowest Pit, in darkness in the depths.
- ÅB
- Du har lagt meg i dypenes hule, på mørke steder, i avgrunner.
- OTB
- Du har plassert meg i den laveste gropen,
I mørke steder, i dypet. - B1930
- Du har lagt mig i dypenes hule, på mørke steder, i avgrunner.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 69:15
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Read in contextPsalms 86:13
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Read in contextPsalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Read in contextPsalms 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.
Read in contextLamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Read in contextJohn 12:46
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
Read in contextJude 1:6
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Read in contextLamentations 3:55
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
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