Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Holman Bible
and my life is near Sheol.
International Standard Version
For my life is filled with troubles as I approach Sheol.
American Standard Version
For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
Amplified
For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
Bible in Basic English
For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
Darby Translation
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
Julia Smith Translation
For my soul was filled with evils, and my life touched upon hades.
King James 2000
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near unto the grave.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol.
Modern King James verseion
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near the grave.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For my soul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell.
NET Bible
For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.
New Heart English Bible
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
The Emphasized Bible
For my soul, is sated with misfortunes, And, my life - unto Hades, hath drawn near;
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 88:3
Prayers for Psalm 88:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Of Desperation
2 Let my prayer enter into thy presence. Incline thine ear to my cry. 3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. 4 I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:18
Their soul abhors all manner of food, and they draw near to the gates of death.
Job 6:2-4
O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 33:22
Yea, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
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 distress. Answer me speedily.
Psalm 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought LORD. My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not. My soul refused to be comforted.
Psalm 88:14-15
LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 107:26
They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.
Psalm 143:3-4
For the enemy has persecuted my soul. He has smitten my life down to the ground. He has made me to dwell in dark places as those who have been long dead.
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as him from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah 53:10-11
Yet it pleased LORD to bruise him. He has put him to grief. When thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Lamentations 3:15-19
He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
Matthew 26:37-39
And having taken Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and distressed.
Mark 14:33-34
And he takes Peter and James and John with him, and began to be greatly disturbed, and very distressed.