Psalm 88:3

A Cry Of Desperation

² May my prayer reach Your presence;
listen to my cry. ³ For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.
⁴ I am counted among those going down to the Pit.
I am like a man without strength,

Full of Trouble

Hades

Sheol

Psalm 107:18

They loathed all food
and came near the gates of death.

Job 6:2-4

If only my grief could be weighed
and my devastation placed with it in the scales.

Job 33:22

He draws near to the Pit,
and his life to the executioners.

Psalm 22:11-21

Do not be far from me, because distress is near
and there is no one to help.

Psalm 69:17-21

Don’t hide Your face from Your servant,
for I am in distress.
Answer me quickly!

Psalm 77:2

I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.

Psalm 88:14-15

Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 107:26

Rising up to the sky, sinking down to the depths,
their courage melting away in anguish,

Psalm 143:3-4

For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing me to the ground,
making me live in darkness
like those long dead.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.
He was like someone people turned away from;
He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

Isaiah 53:10-11

Yet the Lord was pleased to crush Him severely.
When You make Him a restitution offering,
He will see His seed, He will prolong His days,
and by His hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.

Lamentations 3:15-19

He filled me with bitterness,
satiated me with wormwood.

Matthew 26:37-39

Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.

Mark 14:33-34

He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be deeply distressed and horrified.