Psalm 88:3
New International Version
I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death.

New Living Translation
For my life is full of troubles, and death draws near.

English Standard Version
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

Berean Standard Bible
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

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

New King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near to the grave.

New American Standard Bible
For my soul has had enough troubles, And my life has approached Sheol.

NASB 1995
For my soul has had enough troubles, And my life has drawn near to Sheol.

NASB 1977
For my soul has had enough troubles, And my life has drawn near to Sheol.

Legacy Standard Bible
For my soul has been saturated with calamities, And my life has reached Sheol.

Amplified Bible
For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).

Christian Standard Bible
For I have had enough troubles, and my life is near Sheol.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For I have had enough troubles, and my life is near Sheol.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because my soul has been filled with evils and my life has arrived at Sheol!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades.

Contemporary English Version
I am deeply troubled and close to death;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

English Revised Version
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My soul is filled with troubles, and my life comes closer to the grave.

Good News Translation
So many troubles have fallen on me that I am close to death.

International Standard Version
For my life is filled with troubles as I approach Sheol.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For my soul is sated with troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Literal Standard Version
For my soul has been full of evils, | And my life has come to Sheol.

Majority Standard Bible
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

New American Bible
For my soul is filled with troubles; my life draws near to Sheol.

NET Bible
For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.

New Revised Standard Version
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

New Heart English Bible
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

Webster's Bible Translation
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.

World English Bible
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

Young's Literal Translation
For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.

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Audio Bible



Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
2May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry. 3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. 4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.…

Cross References
Job 17:1
"My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Psalm 6:3
My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?

Psalm 107:18
They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.

Psalm 107:26
They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.

Psalm 116:3
The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 141:7
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.


Treasury of Scripture

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave.

soul

Psalm 88:14,15
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? …

Psalm 22:11-21
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help…

Psalm 69:17-21
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily…

life

Psalm 107:18
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

Job 33:22
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

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Psalm 88
1. A prayer containing a grievous complaint.














(3) Grave.--Sheol. Here, as in Psalm 6:4-5; Psalm 33:19; Isaiah 38:10-11, there comes into prominence the thought that death severs the covenant relation with God, and so presents an irresistible reason why prayer should be heard now before it is too late.

Verse 3. - For my soul is full of troubles (see Job 10:15). And my life draweth nigh unto the grave; literally, unto Sheol - the place of departed spirits (comp. Job 10:21, 22).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

my soul
נַפְשִׁ֑י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

is full
שָֽׂבְעָ֣ה (śā·ḇə·‘āh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited

of troubles,
בְרָע֣וֹת (ḇə·rā·‘ō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

and my life
וְחַיַּ֗י (wə·ḥay·yay)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

draws near
הִגִּֽיעוּ׃ (hig·gî·‘ū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5060: To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strike

to Sheol.
לִשְׁא֥וֹל (liš·’ō·wl)
Preposition-l | Noun - common singular
Strong's 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death)


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