Psalm 88:4 {87:5}
Good News Translation
I am like all others who are about to die; all my strength is gone.

New Revised Standard Version
I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; I am like those who have no help,

Contemporary English Version
I am as good as dead and completely helpless.

New American Bible
I am reckoned with those who go down to the pit; I am like a warrior without strength.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

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Psalm 28:1 A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Job 17:1 My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.

Isaiah 38:17,18 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. . . .

Ezekiel 26:20 And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee in the lowest parts of the earth, as places desolate of old, with them that are brought down into the pit, that thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the land of the living,

Jonah 2:6 The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

2 Corinthians 1:9 But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

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Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

Psalm 109:22-24 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me. . . .

Romans 5:6 For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

2 Corinthians 13:4 For although he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him: but we shall live with him by the power of God towards you.

Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
3For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. 4I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,5Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.…
Cross References
Job 17:1
My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.

Job 29:12
Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

Psalm 22:11
Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.

Psalm 28:1
A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 143:7
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 88:3
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